the process of heating a solid with a powdered material to modify the properties of the solid, esp the heating of wrought iron, surrounded with charcoal, to 750–900°C to produce steel
2.
the process of cementing or being cemented
3. civil engineering
the injection of cement grout into fissured rocks to make them watertight
cementation in American English
(ˌsimɛnˈteɪʃən)
noun
1.
a cementing or being cemented
2.
the process by which a solid surrounded by a metallurgical cement is heated intenselyand made to combine chemically with the cement to produce a new product