Definition of: cementation

(sē′mən·tā′shən, sem′ən-) noun
1. The act of cementing; result of cementing.
2. Metall. a A process of making steel by heating wrought iron in charcoal until it is carburized, or in making so–called malleable iron by heating cast iron in a bed of red hematite until it is partly decarburized. b The method of precipitating a metal from its solution, as the precipitation of metallic copper from a copper sulfate solution by means of metallic iron.