Usually means: Formation of hard layer outside.
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  1. encrustation: Merriam-Webster
  2. encrustation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encrustation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. encrustation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. encrustation: Vocabulary.com
  6. encrustation: Wordnik
  7. encrustation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. encrustation: Wiktionary
  9. encrustation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. encrustation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. encrustation: Dictionary.com
  12. encrustation: Rhymezone
  13. encrustation: FreeDictionary.org
  14. encrustation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. encrustation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. encrustation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. encrustation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. encrustation: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Encrustation)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of incrustation [The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.]

Similar:
incrustation, crust, encrusting, concretion, incrusting, barnacle, calcification, redeposition, patination, exudation, more...

Opposite:
deposition, uncovering, exposure

Types:
barnacle, coral, crust, more...

Adjectives:
white, thick, heavy, thin, black, calcareous, yellow, brown, slight, coral, like

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Similar:
incrustation, crust, encrusting, concretion, incrusting, barnacle, calcification, redeposition, patination, exudation, more...

Opposite:
deposition, uncovering, exposure

Types:
barnacle, coral, crust, more...

Adjectives:
white, thick, heavy, thin, black, calcareous, yellow, brown, slight, coral, like



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