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Definition: DENITRIFICATION |
DENITRIFICATIONNoun1. The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Environment | The biological reduction of nitrate to nitrogen gas by denitrifying bacteria in soil. (references) |
| Reduction by bacterial action of nitrate to elementary nitrogen; cf. nitrification. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Business | Most of the major foreign companies doing business for air pollution prevention in Korea are involved in monitoring and measurement equipment, high-quality filter technologies, VOC control equipment, desulfurization and denitrification processes. (references) | |
CNG bus, telemetry monitoring system (TMS) and volatile organic compound (VOC) control equipment, desulphurization and denitrification processes, dust filtering systems, and high-quality filter technologies offer particularly promising prospects. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DENITRIFICATION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DENITRIFICATION" is used about 27 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
denitrification | 15 |
denitrification nitrification | 6 |
air denitrification tunnel | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DENITRIFICATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 反硝化作". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | denitritisering, denitritification, denitrifikation, denitrificering. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | denitrificatie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | denitrifikaatio, typenpoisto, typen poistaminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dénitrification. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Denitrifizierung, Denitrifikation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απαζωτοποίηση, απονίτρωση, διάσπαση νιτρικών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | denitrificazione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enitrificationday desnitrificação. (various references) desnitrificación. (various references) denitrifikation, denitrifiering. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DENITRIFICATION": denitrifications. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "DENITRIFICATION" (pronounced 'De*ni`tri*fi*ca"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-i-i-i-i-n-n-o-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: identification. | |
-2 letters: nitrification. | |
-3 letters: antifriction, indoctrinate, interdiction, nidification. | |
-4 letters: deification, edification, indirection, infanticide, interaction, itineration, reification. | |
-5 letters: antierotic, confidante, definition, detraction, fornicated, fractioned, incitation, indication, infarction, infraction, initiation, inordinate, interionic, recitation. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-f-i-i-i-i-n-n-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: denitrifications. | |
+3 letters: overidentification. | |
+4 letters: antidesertification, overidentifications. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01001110 01001001 01010100 01010010 01001001 01000110 01001001 01000011 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E N I T R I F I C A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004E 0049 0054 0052 0049 0046 0049 0043 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)383948435452434043373554434948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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