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Definition of Encrustation
1. Noun. The formation of a crust.
2. Noun. A hard outer layer that covers something.
Generic synonyms: Cover, Covering, Natural Covering
Specialized synonyms: Calculus, Tartar, Tophus
Derivative terms: Crust, Crusty, Encrust, Encrust, Incrust, Incrust
3. Noun. A decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay.
Generic synonyms: Decoration, Ornament, Ornamentation
Derivative terms: Encrust, Incrust
Definition of Encrustation
1. Noun. An incrustation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Encrustation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encrustation
Literary usage of Encrustation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"... encrustation, pilasters, cornices, &c., in porphyry and other coloured marbles,
in order to use all that rich material for certain superfluities of ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1843)
"In fact, many of them seemed to be stiffened merely by malposition, or rheumatism ;
but, be this as it may, the absence of the cartilages of encrustation ..."
3. Dry Land Farming by Thomas Shaw (1909)
"In the spring there is a decided tendency to encrustation in much of the soil of
the west that has been sown to winter wheat. ..."
4. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1836)
"... the application;—render such a mode of preventing encrustation particularly de.
serving the consideration of all who are interested in steam navigation. ..."
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