Acetylation

Definition: Acetylation

Acetylation

Noun

1. The process of introducing an acetyl group into a compound; "the acetylation of cyclooxygenase-2 by aspirin".

Domain	Definitions
Chemical Industry	Although. . this --. . gives efficient protection from microorganisms, the processes are rather complicated and have found little acceptance for large-scale finishing plant application. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	The process of introducing an acetyl radical into an organic molecule. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Acetylation

Specialty definitions using "acetylation": Acetic Anhydrides ♦ Biotransformation ♦ Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase ♦ pretreatment, Protein Processing, Post-Translational. (references)

"Acetylation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acetylation" is used about 19 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%	19	80,337

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "acetylation": de-acetylation, re-acetylation.
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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.

Language		Translations for "acetylation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		acetylering. (various references)

Dutch		acetylering. (various references)

French		acétylation. (various references)

German		Acetylierung. (various references)

Greek		ακετυλίωση. (various references)

Italian		acetilazione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		アセチル化 (acetate, acetylene, acetylene torch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		アセチルか. (various references)

Pig Latin		acetylationay

Portuguese		acetilação. (various references)

Spanish		acetilación. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "acetylation": acetylations. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-n-o-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: acylation, atonality, lactation.
	-3 letters: analcite, analytic, cattleya, coattail, laitance, natality, octantal, taconite, tailcoat, tantalic, tenacity, tonality.
	-4 letters: acolyte, aconite, actinal, acylate, acyloin, aeolian, alation, aloetic, anality, anolyte, anticly, calotte, cattail, cattalo, cattily, cyanate, cyanite, elation, lactate, lactean, lactone, latency, lattice, lection, nattily, nictate, tacitly, tactile, taction, tetanal, tetanic, toenail, tonetic.
	-5 letters: acetal, acetin, acetyl, action, aecial, aeonic, aliyot, alnico, anatto, anlace, atelic, atonal, atonic, attain, canola, cantle, catalo, catena, cation, catlin, cattie, cattle, centai, cental, cineol, citola, citole, client, clotty, coital, cottae, enatic, enolic, entail, entity, entoil, eolian, etalon, inlace, intact, lanate, lancet, latent, latino, latten, lattin, lectin, lenity, lentic, litany, litten, locate, lyttae, neatly, nettly, nicely, nicety, noetic, notate, notice, octane, octant, oilcan, taenia, talent, talion, tectal, tenail, tetany, tincal, tineal, toilet, tolane, tonlet.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-n-o-t-t-y"
	+1 letter: acetylations.
	+3 letters: affectionately.
	+4 letters: cyanoethylating, cyanoethylation.
	+5 letters: cyanoethylations, intracutaneously, unaffectionately.
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