Crossword clues for fossilization
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fossilization \Fos`sil*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. fossilisation.] The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
noun of action from fossilize.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil. 2 (context figuratively English) The process of becoming fixed, unchanging, and out of date. n. 1 The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil. 2 (context figuratively English) The process of becoming fixed, unchanging, and out of date.
WordNet
n. the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone [syn: fossilisation]
becoming inflexible or out of date [syn: fossilisation]
Wikipedia
In linguistic morphology, fossilization refers to two close notions. One is preserving of ancient linguistic features which have lost their grammatical functions in language. Another is loss of productivity of a grammatical paradigm (e.g. of an affix), which still remains in use in some words.
Examples of fossilization include fossilized morphemes and fossil words.
Usage examples of "fossilization".
De Mortillet, in his usual fashion, said that some of the Sansan bones were broken by natural forces at the time of fossilization, perhaps by desiccation, and others afterward by movement of the strata.
I may add that at least two geologists whose names will develop someday have admitted that the shoe sole is valid, a genuine fossilization in Triassic rocks.
I may add that at least two geologists whose names will develop some day have admitted that the shoe sole is valid, a genuine fossilization in Triassic rocks.
It should prove to be of wide interest in the study of the biochemistry of fossil organisms and the geochemistry of fossilization, subject which have not until now received the attention they deserve, due to the lack of suitable material for experiment.
When you first come to the country, landing at Mombasa, you will see, amongst the old light-grey Baobab-trees, — which look not like any earthly kind of vegetation but like porous fossilizations, gigantic belemnites, — grey stone ruins of houses, minarets and wells.
But since fossilization is such a chancy business, and finding such fossils as there, are is scarcely less chancy, it is as though we had a cine film with most of the frames missing.
That was why she had not let herself remember that igneous rock would never be involved with fossilization.
By continuing to develop new technologies and add features onto their products they can keep one step ahead of the fossilization process, but on certain days they must feel like mammoths caught at La Brea, using all their energies to pull their feet, over and over again, out of the sucking hot tar that wants to cover and envelop them.