Usually means: Writing engraved on a surface.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. inscription: Merriam-Webster
  2. inscription: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inscription: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inscription: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inscription: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inscription, inscription: Wordnik
  7. inscription: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inscription: Wiktionary
  9. inscription: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inscription: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inscription: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inscription: Dictionary.com
  13. inscription: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inscription: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inscription: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inscription: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inscription: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. inscription: Rhymezone
  19. Inscription: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. inscription: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. inscription: FreeDictionary.org
  22. inscription: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. inscription: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. inscription: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Inscription: Numismatic Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  5. inscription: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. inscription: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. inscription: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inscription: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. inscription: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. inscription: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. inscription: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See inscriptional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of inscribing.
noun:  Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item.
noun:  The text on a coin.
noun:  Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.

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