Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1.
a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts);
2.
tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts;
3.
an inflexible and unchanging state;
- Example: "the calcification of negotiations"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Calcification \Cal`ci*fi*ca"tion\
(k[a^]l`s[i^]*f[i^]*k[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. (Physiol.)
The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by
the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation
of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous
degeneration of tissue.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
calcification
n 1: a process that impregnates something with calcium (or
calcium salts)
2: tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts
3: an inflexible and unchanging state; "the calcification of
negotiations"