Cement definition

A substance that hardens to act as an adhesive; glue.

Something that serves to bind or unite.

(geology) A chemically precipitated substance that binds particles of clastic rocks.

To bind with or as if with cement.

To cover or coat with cement.

To become cemented.

Any soft substance that fastens things together firmly when it hardens, as glue.

Anything that joins together or unites; bond.

Cement means to join together or cover with a binding agent, particularly a substance made of burned lime, clay, sand and water.

(dentistry) A substance used for filling cavities or anchoring crowns, inlays, or other restorations.

A building material made by grinding calcined limestone and clay to a fine powder, which can be mixed with water and poured to set as a solid mass or used as an ingredient in making mortar or concrete.

Portland cement.

Concrete.

The fine-grained material that binds together the larger constituents in many kinds of sedimentary or clastic rock.

(dentistry) A cementlike substance used to fill cavities, set crowns, etc.

(metallurgy) A dust or powder, as of charcoal or sand, or a finely divided metal, used in cementation.

A powdered substance made of burned lime and clay, mixed with water and sand to make mortar or with water, sand, and gravel to make concrete: the mixture hardens when it dries.

To join or unite with or as with cement.

To cover with cement.

To establish firmly or make stronger.

(dentistry) A substance used for filling cavities or anchoring crowns, inlays, or other restorations.

(figuratively) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.

To overlay or coat with cement.

(figuratively) To unite firmly or closely.

The definition of cement is anything that binds, particularly a substance made of burned lime, clay, sand and water to make mortar or sand, water and gravel to make concrete.