Usually means: Crystalline deposit on surfaces, salts.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. efflorescence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. efflorescence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. efflorescence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. efflorescence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. efflorescence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Efflorescence, efflorescence: Wordnik
  7. efflorescence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. efflorescence: Wiktionary
  9. efflorescence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. efflorescence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. efflorescence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. efflorescence: Dictionary.com
  13. Efflorescence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Efflorescence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. efflorescence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. efflorescence: Rhymezone
  17. Efflorescence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. efflorescence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. efflorescence: Free Dictionary
  20. efflorescence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. efflorescence: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. efflorescence: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. efflorescence: mosaic glossary

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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. efflorescence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. efflorescence: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Archeological Collections Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

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  1. Efflorescence: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Efflorescence: Building pathology glossary
  3. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (efflorescence)

noun:  (chemistry) The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.
noun:  (botany) The production of flowers.
noun:  (construction) An encrustation of soluble salts, commonly white, deposited on the surface of stone, brick, plaster, or mortar; usually caused by free alkalies leached from mortar or adjacent concrete as moisture moves through it.
noun:  (geology) An encrustation of soluble salts, deposited on rock or soil by evaporation; often found in arid or geothermal environments.
noun:  (figurative) Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.
noun:  (pathology) A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.

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