NOUN | process | calcification | a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts) |
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state | calcification | tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts | |
state | calcification | an inflexible and unchanging state |
Meaning | A process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts). | |
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Narrower | ossification | The calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material |
Broader | chemical process, chemical change, chemical action | (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved |
Spanish | calcificación | |
Catalan | calcificació | |
Verbs | calcify | become impregnated with calcium salts |
Meaning | tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts. | |
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Broader | hardening | Abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue |
Spanish | calcificación | |
Adjectives | calcific | involving or resulting from calcification |
Verbs | calcify | turn into lime |
calcify | become impregnated with calcium salts |
Meaning | An inflexible and unchanging state. | |
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Example | "the calcification of negotiations" | |
Broader | inaction, inactivity, inactiveness | The state of being inactive |
Verbs | calcify | become inflexible and unchanging |
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