Definition of "trituration"

trituration

noun
countable and uncountable, plural triturations
1. The act of triturating; grinding to a fine powder.
  Quotations
  In the trituration of another century or so the corners may disappear; but in the meantime, in the year of grace 1871, I was as much in a new country as if I had been walking out of the Hotel St. Antoine at Antwerp.
  1871, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Cockermouth and Keswick: A Fragment: Cockermouth”, in Essays of Travel, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1905, page 95
2. Something triturated, especially dental amalgam.