Aerobic

Definitions: Aerobic

Aerobic

Adjective

1. Depending on free oxygen or air; "aerobic fermentation".

2. Based on or using the principles of aerobics; enhancing respiratory and circulatory efficiency; "aerobic dance"; "running is very aerobic".

Date "aerobic" was first used: 1884. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Aerobic

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	Living or active only in the presence of oxygen. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	In biochemistry, reactions that need oxygen to happen or happen when oxygen is present. (references)
	Requiring oxygen [compare with anaerobic]. (references)
Mining	A. Said of an organism (esp. a bacterium) that can live only in the presence of free oxygen; also, said of its activities. Syn:aerob b. Said of conditions that can exist only in the presence of free oxygen.CF:anaerobic. (references)
Weather	A life or process that occurs in and is dependent upon oxygen. See methanotrophic, anaerobic. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Aerobic

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Aerobic is an adjective that means "requires air" (where "air" usually means oxygen). For example, an aerobic organism requires air to live; an aerobic exercise is one that targets muscle processes that require oxygen.

The opposite of aerobic is anaerobic.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aerobic."

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Synonyms: Aerobic

Synonyms: aerophilic (adj), aerophilous (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: anaerobic (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Aerobic

English words defined with "aerobic": Aerobacter, Aerobacter aerogenes, aerobic exercise, anaerobic ♦ B, bacilli, bacillus ♦ family Micrococcaceae, family Streptomycetaceae ♦ genus Aerobacter, genus Leptospira, genus Mycobacterium ♦ Micrococcaceae ♦ Pseudomonas pyocanea ♦ spirilla, spirillum, streptomyces, Streptomycetaceae. (references)

Specialty definitions using "aerobic": Acetobacteraceae, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, Aerobic Bacteria, aerobic metabolism, aerobic respiration, Aerobic Treatment, Alcaligenes, Anti-Infective Agents, Quinolone, Azospirillum, Azospirillum brasilense, Azotobacter ♦ biodisc, biological disc, biological disk, Biological oxygen demand, Bordetella, Bordetella pertussis, Bradyrhizobium, Brucella, Burkholderia, Burkholderia pseudomallei ♦ Caulobacter, Caulobacter crescentus, Cefotetan, Ceftizoxime, Comamonas testosteroni, Composting, Composting Toilet, Coproporphyrinogen Oxidase ♦ digested sludge ♦ EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGIST, Exercise Test ♦ Facultative Bacteria, Flavobacterium ♦ Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria, Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci ♦ Haloferax ♦ Imipenem ♦ Kingella ♦ Legionella, Legionella pneumophila, Legionellaceae, Leptospira interrogans ♦ Methanotrophic, Methylococcaceae, mitochondria, Moraxella, Mycobacterium chelonae, Mycobacterium haemophilum, Mycobacterium paratuberculosis ♦ Natronobacterium, Natronococcus, Neisseria, Neisseria meningitidis, Nitrobacteraceae, Nocardia, Nocardiaceae ♦ oxidative metabolism ♦ Pasteurella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas putida, PUBLIC-HEALTH MICROBIOLOGIST, pulmonary ventilation ♦ Rhizobium leguminosarum, Rickettsia prowazekii, Rickettsia rickettsii, rotating biochemical filter, rotating biological contactor, rotating biological disc, rotating disk filter ♦ Sinorhizobium meliloti, Sparge or Sparging, Sphingomonas, Spiramycin, Stenotrophomonas, Sulfolobaceae, Sulfolobales, Sulfolobus, Sulfolobus acidocaldarius ♦ Thermoplasmales, Thermus, Thermus thermophilus ♦ Xanthomonas campestris ♦ Yersinia. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Aerobic" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (aerobic, aerobics), Hungarian (aerobic, aerobics), Spanish (aerobics).

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Modern Usage: Aerobic

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

The Firm: Total Body - Complete Aerobic Weight Training (1996)

Low Impact Aerobic Workout (1986)

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Commercial Usage: Aerobic

Domain	Title
Books	Aerobic Sports Log: A Revolutionary Graphical Log Book for the Health and Fitness-Conscious Individual (reference) Aerobic Walking, the Weight-Loss Exercise: A Complete Program to Reduce Weight, Stress, and Hypertention (reference) Aerobic Walking: The Best and Safest Weight Loss and Cardiovascular Exercise for Everyone Overweight or Out of Shape (reference) Aerobic Yoga: The Cosmic Fountain of Youth Workout (reference) Keep Moving!: It's Aerobic Dance (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Khi Bae - Ultimate Aerobic Kickboxing Workout (reference) Treadmoves: Aerobic Cardio Blast (reference) Donna Richardson: Donna-Mite Aerobic Workout (reference) Fit For 2 Step Aerobic Workout For Pregnancy (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Aerobic Power for Kids (reference) Preschool Aerobic Fun (reference) World of Aerobic (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Aerobic

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Photo Album: Aerobic

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram-negative aerobic bacteria, and is the causative agent of melioidosis. The organism's colonial morphology changes somewhat as the incubation is extended.Credit: CDC.		CDC employees performing aerobic exercise.Credit: CDC.
	Escherichia coli is the most common aerobic bacteria found in the large intestine of healthy individuals, and accounts for 90-95% of all the aerobic bacteria.Credit: CDC.		Escherichia coli is the most common aerobic bacteria found in the large intestine of healthy individuals, and accounts for 90-95% of all the aerobic bacteria.Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Aerobic

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Cessation of smoking, correction of obesity, and regular aerobic exercise may also contribute to reducing mortality from cardiovascular disease. (references)
		Healthier cholesterol levels can be achieved by watching fats in your diet and regular aerobic exercise such as walking, running, swimming, or bike riding. (references)
		Physical therapy and special equipment can enhance patients' independence and safety throughout the course of ALS. Gentle, low-impact aerobic exercise such as walking, swimming, and stationary bicycling can strengthen unaffected muscles, improve cardiovascular health, and help patients fight fatigue and depression. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Aerobic

"Aerobic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.55% of the time. "Aerobic" is used about 223 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.55%	222	20,237
Noun (proper)	0.45%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	223	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Aerobic

Expressions using "aerobic": Aerobic exercise ♦ aerobic metabolism ♦ aerobic respiration ♦ Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria ♦ Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aerobic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
aerobic	1,533
water aerobic	728
step aerobic	338
aerobic exercise	302
aerobic breathing	294
aerobic music	277
nude aerobic	163
aerobic water exercise	129
aerobic certification	96
aqua aerobic	84
aerobic video	83
aerobic shoes	76
aerobic class	66
aerobic instructor	62
aerobic septic system	61
aerobic fitness	53
aerobic respiration	47
aerobic dance	44
aerobic steps	37
aerobic training	36
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Modern Translations: Aerobic

Language		Translations for "aerobic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏حيهوائي نبات أو حيوان هوائي, ‏تنفسي (respiratory), ‏الهوائي (aerial). (various references)

Bulgarian		аеробен. (various references)

Chinese		有氧. (various references)

Czech		aerobický. (various references)

Danish		aerob (aerob, aerobe). (various references)

Dutch		aëroob (aerob, aerobe). (various references)

Finnish		aerobinen (aerob, aerobe), aerobi (aerob, aerobe). (various references)

French		aérobie (aerob, aerobe). (various references)

German		aerob (aerob, aerobe). (various references)

Greek		είδοσ γυμναστικήσ. (various references)

Hebrew		ארובי, � שימתי (breathy). (various references)

Hungarian		aerobic (aerobics), levegõbõl élõ. (various references)

Indonesian		erobik (exercise). (various references)

Italian		aerobico (aerob, aerobe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		好気性細菌 (aerobic bacteria), エール大学 (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aerosol, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air compressor, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air force, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pocket, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, airbrush, Airbus, airline, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, airway, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うきせいさいき�" (aerobic bacteria), エアロ�"ックダンシング (aerobic dancing). (various references)

Korean		호기성. (various references)

Manx		aeroabagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		aerobicay

Portuguese		aeróbio (aerob, aerobe). (various references)

Romanian		aerob (aerobe, aerobian). (various references)

Russian		аэробный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		aerobik, aerobični. (various references)

Spanish		aerobio (aerob, aerobe, air-breathing). (various references)

Swedish		aerob (aerob, aerobe). (various references)

Ukranian		аеробний. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Aerobic

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	aero-. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Aerobic

Derivations
	Words beginning with "aerobic": aerobically, aerobicize, aerobicized, aerobicizes, aerobicizing, aerobics. (additional references)
	Words ending with "aerobic": anaerobic. (additional references)
	Words containing "aerobic": anaerobically. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Aerobic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aeolic, aeorbic, aerob, Aeroback, aerobia, aerotic, Amerbach, anerbic, anerobic, aorbic, Areoi, arobic, arrobic, omerovic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Aerobic"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "aerobic" (pronounced erō"bik)
4	-ō" b i k	anaerobic, claustrophobic, homophobic, phobic.
3	-b i k	acerbic, amoebic, arabic, ascorbic, cherubic, cubic, pubic, syllabic, xenophobic.
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Anagrams: Aerobic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-o-r"
	-1 letter: caribe, corbie.
	-2 letters: acerb, areic, baric, boric, brace, caber, carbo, carob, ceiba, ceria, cobia, cobra, coria, erica, ocrea, rabic.
	-3 letters: abri, acre, aero, arco, bare, bear, bice, bier, boar, bora, bore, brae, brie, brio, carb, care, cero, ciao, cire, coir, core, crab, crib, obia, orca, race, rice, robe.
	-4 letters: abo, ace, air, arb, arc, are, bar, bio, boa, bra, bro, cab, car, cob, cor, ear, era, ice, ire, oar, obe, obi, oca, ora, orb, orc, ore, reb, rec, rei, ria, rib, rob, roc, roe.
	-5 letters: ab, ae, ai, ar, ba, be, bi, bo, er, oe, or, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-o-r"
	+1 letter: aerobics, albicore, boracite, braciole, cabriole.
	+2 letters: aerobatic, albicores, anaerobic, bacteroid, boracites, bracioles, bricolage, cabrioles, cabriolet, carbonize, iceboater, microbeam, rockabies.
	+3 letters: abreaction, aerobatics, aerobicize, bacteroids, barometric, bichromate, bioreactor, bricolages, cabriolets, carabinero, carbonized, carbonizes, clofibrate, corbiculae, iceboaters, microbeams, obduracies, orbiculate.
	+4 letters: abreactions, aerobically, aerobicized, aerobicizes, bacteriocin, baronetcies, barricadoed, barricadoes, beclamoring, becowarding, bicarbonate, bichromated, bichromates, bimolecular, biometrical, bioreactors, brecciation, cabinetwork, carabineros, carburetion, celebration, cerebration, charbroiled, charbroiler, clofibrates, confirmable, cybernation, decarbonize, embrocation, exorbitance, forbiddance, irrevocable, irrevocably, meroblastic, mobocracies, obstetrical, problematic, recombinant.
	+5 letters: absorbancies, absorbencies, aerobicizing, bacteriocins, bacteriology, bacteriostat, bicarbonates, biometrician, biomolecular, borosilicate, brecciations, cabinetworks, carburetions, celebrations, cerebrations, charbroilers, considerable, considerably, contractible, coralberries, cybernations, decarbonized, decarbonizer, decarbonizes, discoverable, elucubration, embrocations, exacerbation, exorbitances, forbiddances, hyperbolical, incomparable, incorporable, inobservance, microbalance, microwavable, mycobacteria, nonbacterial, obstetrician, problematics, proboscidean, procarbazine, recognizable, recognizably, recombinants, reconcilable, ribonuclease, rockabillies, secobarbital, tubocurarine, vocabularies.
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