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INCINERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incineration mean? 

INCINERATION (noun)
  The noun INCINERATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashesplay

  Familiarity information: INCINERATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INCINERATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("incineration" is a kind of...):

burning; combustion (the act of burning something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incineration"):

cremation (the incineration of a dead body)

Derivation:

incinerate (cause to undergo combustion)

incinerate (become reduced to ashes)


 Context examples 


Inorganic material remaining after incineration of a food substance.

(Dietary Ash, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)



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