An oxymoron (usual plural oxymorons, more rarely oxymora) is a rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox. A more general meaning of contradiction in terms (not necessarily for rhetoric effect) is recorded by the OED for 1902.
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Photograph of the Reed quarry in Livingston County, Kentucky. The quarry is 450 feet (140 m) deep. The Reed Quarry is one of the largest producer of crushed stone in the United States. The quarry pit is 4,500 feet (1.4 km) wide at its widest, and is 450 feet (140 m) deep at the present time. It produces more than 10 million short tons of crushed stone each year.