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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun ossification has 4 senses

ossification(n = noun.process) - the developmental process of bone formation;

is a kind of

biological process

organic process

ossification(n = noun.process) - the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material;

is a kind of

calcification

Derived forms verb ossify₁, verb ossify₃

ossification(n = noun.process) - the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior;

is a kind of

human process

Derived form verb ossify₂

ossification(n = noun.attribute) conformity - hardened conventionality;

is a kind of convention, conventionalism, conventionality

Derived form verb ossify₂

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CIDE DICTIONARY

ossification, n. [Cf. F. ossification. See Ossify.].

The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis. [1913 Webster]
" Besides the natural ossification of growing tissue, there is the so-called accidental ossification which sometimes follows certain abnormal conditions, as in the ossification of an artery." [1913 Webster]
The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue. [1913 Webster]

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ossification

Hardness

N hardness, rigidity, renitence, renitency, inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction, lapidification, lapidescence, vitrification, ossification, crystallization, stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant, bone, cartilage, hardware, heart of oak, block, board, deal board, iron, steel, cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron, nail, brick, concrete, cement, hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm, starch, starched, stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, proof, adamant, adamantine, adamantean, concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous, horny, corneous, bony, osseous, ossific, cartilaginous, hard as a rock, stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker, stiff as starch, stiff as as board.