Petrification

Definition: Petrification

Petrification

Noun

1. The process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape.

Date "petrification" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)

Domain	Definitions
History & Folklore	Organic matter converted into stone. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	See:petrifaction. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Petrification

Synonym: petrifaction (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Density	Condensation; caseation; solidation, solidification; consolidation; concretion, coagulation; petrification. (hardening); crystallization, precipitation; deposit, precipitate; inspissation; gelation, thickening. Verb:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Petrification

English words defined with "petrification": Petrescence. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Petrification" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (petrifaction, petrification).

"Petrification" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Petrification" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "petrification"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ngurtësim (concretion, induration, petrifaction, solidification), ngurosje (petrifaction), ngurim (petrifaction, vacillating). (various references)

Danish		petrifikation, petrificatio, forstening. (various references)

Dutch		petrificatio, petrificatie, verstening (fossil). (various references)

French		pétrification (petrifaction). (various references)

German		Versteinerung (fossil, fossilization, hardening, petrifaction). (various references)

Greek		απολίθωσις, απολίθωση (calcification, fossilization, petrifaction), απολίθωμα (fossil, petrifaction). (various references)

Hungarian		meszesedés (calcification, petrifaction), meredés (petrifaction), megkövesedés (petrifaction), megkövülés (fossilization, petrifaction), kövület (fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, petrifaction), kővé válás (petrifaction), kővé dermedés (petrifaction), kővé (petrifaction), elmeszesedés (petrifaction, sclerosis). (various references)

Italian		pietrificazione (petrifaction). (various references)

Manx		claghaghey (petrify). (various references)

Pig Latin		etrificationpay

Portuguese		petrificação (petrify). (various references)

Romanian		petrificare (petrifaction). (various references)

Spanish		petrificación (petrifaction). (various references)

Ukranian		скам'яніння (fossilization, petrifaction), окам'янілість (petrifaction), заціпеніння (daze, numbness, petrifaction, rigor, stupor). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "petrification": petrifications. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "petrification" (pronounced 'Pet`ri*fi*ca"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: petrifaction.
	-2 letters: crepitation, pontificate, reification.
	-3 letters: antierotic, antipoetic, proficient, recitation.
	-4 letters: carnotite, crepitant, fornicate, initiator, intricate, iteration, partition, patriotic, tricotine.
	-5 letters: anoretic, antiriot, aperitif, apocrine, artifice, atropine, caponier, citation, confetti, contrite, coparent, creation, entropic, fetation, fraction, friction, inceptor, infector, initiate, interact, notifier, operatic, optician, pacifier, paintier, patentor, pecorini, periotic, petition, pinafore, pittance, pointier, pontific, portance.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: petrifications, prettification.
	+2 letters: prenotification, prettifications.
	+3 letters: precertification, prenotifications.
	+4 letters: precertifications.
	+5 letters: polyesterification.
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