Skeleton vs Mineralization - What's the difference?
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(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
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A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
(figuratively) A very thin person.
(From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge). See
(computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
(geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. See
(figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
(archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
(archaic) to minimize
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A form of fossilization in which the organic parts of an organism are replaced by minerals
The breakdown of organic matter in the soil to form soluble inorganic compounds
(medicine) The deposition of calcium salts in abnormal parts of the skeleton
The addition of minerals to water to make a mineral water
As nouns the difference between skeleton and mineralization
is that skeleton is (anatomy) the system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals while mineralization is a form of fossilization in which the organic parts of an organism are replaced by minerals.As a verb skeleton
is (archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.skeleton
English
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(en-noun)- At the foot of a pretty big pine, and involved in a green creeper, which had even partly lifted some of the smaller bones, a human skeleton lay, with a few shreds of clothing, on the ground.
- She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton.
- RMI Nomenclature: in RMI, the client helper is a 'stub' and the service helper is a 'skeleton'.
- She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween.
- The skeleton of the organisation is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, but many new faces have come and gone.
