1. The developmental process of bone formation 
2. The calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material 
3. The process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behaviour 
4. Hardened conventionality
   - conformity

Derived forms: ossifications

See also: ossify

Type of: biological process, calcification, convention, conventionalism, conventionality, human process, organic process

Encyclopedia: Ossification

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