Usually means: Loss of moisture; drying out.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. desiccation: Merriam-Webster
  2. desiccation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desiccation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. desiccation: Vocabulary.com
  5. desiccation: Wordnik
  6. desiccation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. desiccation: Wiktionary
  8. desiccation: Dictionary.com
  9. desiccation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Desiccation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Desiccation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. desiccation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. desiccation: Rhymezone
  14. Desiccation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. desiccation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. desiccation: FreeDictionary.org
  17. desiccation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. desiccation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. desiccation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desiccation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. desiccation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Desiccation: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. desiccation: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desiccation: Natural History Terms

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See desiccate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (desiccation)

noun:  (uncountable) The state or process of being desiccated
noun:  An act or occurrence of desiccating

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