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OSSIFICATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hardened conventionality

Synonyms:

conformity; ossification

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("ossification" is a kind of...):

convention; conventionalism; conventionality (orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional)

Derivation:

ossify (make rigid and set into a conventional pattern)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The developmental process of bone formation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("ossification" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("ossification" is a kind of...):

human process (a process in which human beings are involved)

Derivation:

ossify (make rigid and set into a conventional pattern)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("ossification" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

ossify (become bony)

ossify (cause to become hard and bony)

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