petrification

Signification (Anglais)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Turning to stone: the process of replacement of the organic residues of plants (and animals) with insoluble salts, with the original shape and topography being retained.
  2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) obduracy; callousness.
  3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Sheer terror; great fright.

Concepts

pétrification
roche
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Synonymes

petrifaction
fossilization
fossil
C2
petrified
C2
rigidity
48k
rigor
C2
rock
A2
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silicification
stiffening
stiffness
45k
stupor
31k
fossilisation
calcification
lithification
mineralization
ossification
Traductions

Versteinerung
petrificación
verstening

تصخير

petrificació

Erstarrung
Fossil
Gestein
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Erstarren
Steifheit

Verkrampfung

Petrifikation

Steifwerden

Verkrampftheit

Étymologie (Anglais)

From French pétrification, from Middle French pétrifier + -ation.

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