- the act of closing, blocking, or shutting something, or the state of being closed or blocked: Corrosion may cause both leakage and occlusion of the water supply pipes.
- the fitting together of the teeth of the lower jaw with the corresponding teeth of the upper jaw when the jaws are closed.
- closure or blockage of a blood vessel: coronary occlusion.
- momentary complete closure at some area in the vocal tract, causing stoppage of the flow of air and accumulation of pressure: many consonants in English, as /b/ and /k/, are articulated this way.
- Meteorology.
- an occluded front.
- the formation of an occluded front.
- an obstructed view, or occultation, of an object in three-dimensional space when line of sight is blocked by an intervening object: Augmented reality is only believable if rendered models respect occlusion and disappear behind real-world objects.
- the act or process of occluding or the state of being occluded
- meteorol another term for occluded front
- the normal position of the teeth when the jaws are closed
- the complete closure of the vocal tract at some point, as in the closure prior to the articulation of a plosive
