Detritus

Noun

Sources – Merriam-Webster.com

Definition:

  1. loose material (as rock fragments or organic particles) that results directly from disintegrations
  2. a : a product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away : debris

b : miscellaneous remnants : odds and ends <sifting through the detritus of his childhood — Michael Tomasky>

 

This word was being talked about in Graphic design principles 1/COMD 1100. In class we couldn’t really even pronounce the word let alone define it but now i know that we were aiming for he first definition that it basically means left over debris.