"induration" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪndjʊˈɹeɪʃən/ Forms: indurations [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English induracioun, from Old French induracion (“hardness, obstinacy”) or directly from Medieval Latin induratiō. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|induracioun}} Middle English induracioun, {{der|en|fro|induracion||hardness, obstinacy}} Old French induracion (“hardness, obstinacy”), {{der|en|ML.|induratiō}} Medieval Latin induratiō Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} induration (countable and uncountable, plural indurations)
  1. Hardness. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. Process of becoming hard. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-induration-en-noun-Gv2Y3VYX
  3. (medicine) Hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (medical: hardening of an area of the body): втвърдяване (vtvǎrdjavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), kovettuminen (Finnish), stwardnienie [neuter] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-induration-en-noun-nONmPS82 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 2 17 28 29 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 2 18 29 32 16 Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'medical: hardening of an area of the body': 3 2 57 31 5 3
  4. (medicine) An area or part of the body that has undergone such a reaction. Most often this term is used to describe dermatologic findings. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-induration-en-noun-dBYPVbC7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 2 17 28 29 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 2 18 29 32 16 Topics: medicine, sciences
  5. (geology) The quality of non-friability; the extent to which a rock does not crumble; rock strength. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Geology
    Sense id: en-induration-en-noun-M4N3OUQg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 2 17 28 29 17 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 2 3 18 18 38 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 2 3 23 24 32 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 2 18 29 32 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 2 4 15 20 41 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 2 4 15 21 40 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 5 5 16 22 35 17 Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
  6. (geology) The process of the strengthening of rocks by heating, compaction or cementation, or a combination thereof. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Geology
    Sense id: en-induration-en-noun-tk0ZinYc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 2 17 28 29 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 2 18 29 32 16 Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: enduration Translations (medical: hardened area of the body): kovettuma (Finnish)
Disambiguation of 'medical: hardened area of the body': 9 2 34 35 13 7

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.