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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Fossilization may refer to

• The process that produces fossils

• Loss of progress in second language acquisition

• Cranberry word or 'fossilized term', used in morphology to refer to exceptional compound words not built from productive rules, e.g. cranberry