An incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, notable for its cemeteries.

A male given name from Irish. / A surname originating as a patronymic.

A city, the capital of the department of the Haut-Rhin, Alsace, region of Grand Est, eastern France.

An instrument for visualising stressed regions, especially internal regions, in substances such as glass, by detecting differences in the degree of rotation of the plane of polarisation, generally by placing the object between crossed polarizers.

A process of progressive clogging of a porous medium by fine particles such as might occur in groundwater passing through, thereby reducing the medium's porosity and, accordingly, its permeability.

The impermeable state of an originally porous medium, after it has been effectively clogged, usually by fine particles as a result of the process of colmation, though multiple causes might combine, such as swelling of clay or intrusion of asphalt.

plural of colmascope