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n. The act, process, or result of cementing.

n. A metallurgical coating process in which iron or steel is immersed in a powder of another metal, such as zinc, chromium, or aluminum, and heated to a temperature below the melting point of either.

n. The act of cementing

n. The impregnation of the surface of a metal with another material; the manufacture of steel by carburizing iron

n. The precipitation of mineral matter in the pores of a sediment

n. The use of a cement join the parts of a broken bone to aid in the healing process

n. The use of a cement or adhesive to fasten orthodontics or to restore chipped or broken teeth

n. The act or process of cementing.

n. A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.

n. The act of cementing; the act of uniting by an adhesive substance.

n. A metallurgical process in which two substances are heated in contact for the purpose of effecting some important chemical change in one of them.

n. In petrography, the cementing of fragments or grains of a porous or incoherent rock by infiltration and deposition of mineral matter from solution. The commonest cementing-materials are carbonates, silica (usually as quartz), and silicates.

n. The solid fixation to extraneous objects by the substance of the shell or test, as in the entire class of corals and sporadically in the Brachiopoda, Pelecypoda, Vermes, etc.

n. In botany, the growing together of the hyphæ of fungi. Same as concrescence, 4.

n. A process in which two solid substances in contact, upon being heated, pass into and penetrate one another without melting.

"The process of compaction and cementation is known as lithification."

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