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Definition of 'calcification'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) calcification
a changing into lime.

2.  calcification
the deposition of lime or insoluble salts of calcium and magnesium, as in a tissue.

3.  calcification
Anat., Geol. a calcified formation.

4.  calcification
a process in which surface soil is supplied with calcium in such a way that the soil colloids are always close to saturation.

5.  calcification
a hardening or solidifying.

Definition of 'calcification'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) calcification
a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)

2. (noun) calcification
tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts

3. (noun) calcification
an inflexible and unchanging state
"the calcification of negotiations"

Definition of 'calcification'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) calcification
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

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