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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
petrification is a noun meaning "the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape". It carries one recorded sense.
the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for petrification come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.