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noun a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts)
noun tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts
noun an inflexible and unchanging state
originEtymology tree English calcify Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English calcification From calcify + -ation.
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