Usually means: Chewing food with teeth process.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. mastication: Merriam-Webster
  2. mastication: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mastication: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mastication: Vocabulary.com
  5. Mastication, mastication: Wordnik
  6. mastication: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. mastication: Wiktionary
  8. Mastication, mastication: Dictionary.com
  9. mastication: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Mastication: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Mastication: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. mastication: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. mastication: Rhymezone
  14. Mastication: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. mastication: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. mastication: FreeDictionary.org
  17. mastication: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. mastication: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mastication: Glossary of Health Care Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mastication: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. mastication: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. mastication: Natural Health glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  7. mastication: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  8. mastication: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mastication: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See masticate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mastication)

noun:  (physiology) The process of chewing.
noun:  The process of crushing as though chewed.

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