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noun
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 the calcareous degeneration of tissue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
Narrower terms: ossification
noun
an inflexible and unchanging state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: inaction, inactivity, inactiveness
noun
tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hardening
History
Etymology tree English calcify Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English calcification From calcify + -ation.
Across languages
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
