Calcification

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Impregnation with calcium or calcium salts, as with calcium carbonate.
  • n. Hardening, as of tissue, by such impregnation.
  • n. A calcified substance or part.
  • n. An inflexible, unchanging state: calcification of negotiations.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A changing into lime; the process of changing or being changed into a stony substance by the deposition of salts of lime, as in the formation of petrifactions.
  • n. In zoology and anatomy, the deposition of salts of lime in any tissue, as in membrane or cartilage in the formation of bone.
  • n. A calcific formation or structure.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an inflexible and unchanging state
  • n. tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts
  • n. a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    inaction    inactivity    inactiveness    hardening   
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