Petrification

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Petrification \Pet`ri*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. p['e]trification.
     See {Petrify}.]
     1. See {Petrifaction}.
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     2. Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. --Hallywell.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  petrification
       n : the process of turning some plant material into stone by
           infiltration with water carrying mineral particles
           without changing the original shape [syn: {petrifaction}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "petrification":
     ancient manuscript, antique, antiquity, archaism, arteriosclerosis,
     artifact, atherosclerosis, calcification, callusing,
     case hardening, cave painting, concretion, cornification,
     crystallization, eolith, firming, fossil, fossilization,
     granulation, hardening, hornification, induration, lapidification,
     lithification, mezzolith, microlith, neolith, ossification,
     paleolith, petrifaction, petrified forest, petrified wood,
     petroglyph, plateaulith, relic, reliquiae, remains, ruin, ruins,
     sclerosis, setting, solidification, steeling, stiffening, survival,
     tempering, toughening, vestige, vitrifaction, vitrification