See calcification in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "calcify",
"3": "ation"
},
"expansion": "calcify + -ation",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From calcify + -ation.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "calcifications",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "calcification (countable and uncountable, plural calcifications)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ation",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "anticalcification"
},
{
"word": "biocalcification"
},
{
"word": "decalcification"
},
{
"word": "dystrophic calcification"
},
{
"word": "hypercalcification"
},
{
"word": "hypocalcification"
},
{
"word": "macrocalcification"
},
{
"word": "microcalcification"
},
{
"word": "mictocalcification"
},
{
"word": "osteocalcification"
},
{
"word": "overcalcification"
},
{
"word": "procalcification"
},
{
"word": "recalcification"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1871, The Dental Cosmos, volume 13, page 84:",
"text": "An examination of the tooth shows a beautiful specimen of calcification of the dental pulp.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Marcus Samuelsson, “One: My African Mother”, in Yes, Chef, Random House, →ISBN, page 6:",
"text": "It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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 the calcareous degeneration of tissue."
],
"id": "en-calcification-en-noun-TIqzHNCl",
"links": [
[
"stony",
"stony"
],
[
"calcareous",
"calcareous"
],
[
"deposition",
"deposition"
],
[
"lime",
"lime"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "takallus",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"word": "تَكَلُّس"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kalcirane",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"word": "калциране"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vtvǎrdjavane",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"word": "втвърдяване"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gàihuà",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"word": "鈣化 /钙化"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "zvápenatění"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kalcifikace"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"word": "kalkkeutuminen"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "calcificación"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apotitánosi",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "αποτιτάνωση"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "calcificazione"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "förkalkning"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌkælsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-calcification.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-calcification.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-calcification.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-calcification.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-calcification.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
}
],
"word": "calcification"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "anticalcification"
},
{
"word": "biocalcification"
},
{
"word": "decalcification"
},
{
"word": "dystrophic calcification"
},
{
"word": "hypercalcification"
},
{
"word": "hypocalcification"
},
{
"word": "macrocalcification"
},
{
"word": "microcalcification"
},
{
"word": "mictocalcification"
},
{
"word": "osteocalcification"
},
{
"word": "overcalcification"
},
{
"word": "procalcification"
},
{
"word": "recalcification"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "calcify",
"3": "ation"
},
"expansion": "calcify + -ation",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From calcify + -ation.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "calcifications",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "calcification (countable and uncountable, plural calcifications)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ation",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/eɪʃən",
"Rhymes:English/eɪʃən/5 syllables",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1871, The Dental Cosmos, volume 13, page 84:",
"text": "An examination of the tooth shows a beautiful specimen of calcification of the dental pulp.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Marcus Samuelsson, “One: My African Mother”, in Yes, Chef, Random House, →ISBN, page 6:",
"text": "It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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 the calcareous degeneration of tissue."
],
"links": [
[
"stony",
"stony"
],
[
"calcareous",
"calcareous"
],
[
"deposition",
"deposition"
],
[
"lime",
"lime"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌkælsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-calcification.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-calcification.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-calcification.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-calcification.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-calcification.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "takallus",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"word": "تَكَلُّس"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kalcirane",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"word": "калциране"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vtvǎrdjavane",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"word": "втвърдяване"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gàihuà",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"word": "鈣化 /钙化"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "zvápenatění"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kalcifikace"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"word": "kalkkeutuminen"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "calcificación"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apotitánosi",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "αποτιτάνωση"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "calcificazione"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the process of change into a stony or calcareous substance",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "förkalkning"
}
],
"word": "calcification"
}
Download raw JSONL data for calcification meaning in English (4.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (f90d964 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.