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Definition: Anaerobic |
AnaerobicAdjective1. Living or active in the absence of free oxygen; "anaerobic bacteria". 2. Not aerobic; "isometric exercises are anaerobic". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anaerobic" was first used: 1884. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | A condition in which no oxygen is available in any form. e. g. anaerobic environment. Organisms which grow in the absence of dissolved oxygen are called anaerobic ; a condition in which no oxygen is available in any form; e. g. anaerobic environment. Organisms which grow in the absence of dissolved oxygen are called anaerobic. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | 1. lacking molecular oxygen. 2. growing, living, or occurring in the absence of molecular oxygen; pertaining to an anaerobe. (references) |
| Requiring the absence of oxygen [compare with aerobic]. (references) | |
Mining | A. Said of an organism (esp. a bacterium) that can live in the absence of free oxygen; also, said of its activities.--n. anaerobe b. Said of conditions that exist only in the absence of free oxygen.CF:aerobic. (references) |
Weather | A life or process that occurs in, or is not destroyed by, the absence of oxygen. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Anaerobic is a technical word which means without air. The presence or absence of air affects various chemical and biological reactions.
One example is that wood which is totally immersed in water does not rot - the process of rotting being a process requiring water and air - see Seahenge.
See also:
- Anaerobic organism
- Anaerobic respiration
- Anaerobic glycolysis
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Anaerobic."
Synonym: AnaerobicSynonym: anaerobiotic (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: aerobic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Anaerobic |
| English words defined with "anaerobic": Actinomycetaceae ♦ Bacteroides, botulinum, botulinus ♦ Clostridium botulinum ♦ family Actinomycetaceae, ferment, fermentation, fermenting ♦ genus Bacteroides, genus Clostridium, genus Treponema ♦ methanogen ♦ zymolysis, zymosis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "anaerobic": Anaerobic Digester, Anaerobic Digestion, Anaerobic organism ♦ Gram-Negative Anaerobic Bacteria, Gram-Negative Anaerobic Cocci, Gram-Negative Anaerobic Straight, Curved, and Helical Rods, Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | C. botulinum is a strictly anaerobic bacterium that when grown on egg yolk agar, its colonies will exhibit a lipase reaction, described as the shiny area around each colony. Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Botulinum toxin is a complex protein produced by the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium botulinum. (references) | |
A potent neurotoxin produced from Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium. (references) | ||
Business | The main source of GHGs in the waste sector is anaerobic decay of biodegradable waste that emits landfill methane. (references) | |
However, foreign firms must be able to offer prices competitive with Asian manufacturers on municipal wastewater treatment equipment (some requested equipment types include, metallic and non-metallic chain scrubbers, centrifugal pumps, continuous belt filter press and sludge thickeners, and anaerobic digestion systems). (references) | ||
Economic History | Uk | The U.S. holds over 20 per cent of the import market for screening and filtration, sludge dewatering, phosphorus and heavy metal removal, and anaerobic digestion systems. (references) |
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| "Anaerobic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Anaerobic" is used about 149 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) | 100% | 149 | 25,810 |
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Expressions using "anaerobic": anaerobic exercise ♦ Anaerobic Threshold ♦ Gram-Negative Anaerobic Bacteria ♦ Gram-Negative Anaerobic Cocci ♦ Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods. Additional references. | |
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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 "anaerobic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 绝氧. (various references) | |
Danish | anaerob (anaerobe). (various references) | |
Dutch | anaeroob, anaëroob (anaerobe), anaëroob, zuurstofloos (anoxic). (various references) | |
Finnish | anaerobinen. (various references) | |
French | anaérobie (anaerobe). (various references) | |
German | anaerob. (various references) | |
Greek | αναερόβιος (anaerobe). (various references) | |
Italian | anaerobico. (various references) | |
Korean | 혐기성 (anaerobe, Anaerobes). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anaerobicay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anaeróbio (anaerobe), anaeróbio. (various references) | |
Romanian | anaerob (anaerobe). (various references) | |
Russian | анаэробный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bezvazdušan (airless, vacuum). (various references) | |
Spanish | anaerobio (anaerobe). (various references) | |
Swedish | anaerob (anaerobe). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kỵ khí (anaerobian). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | an-. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anaerobic": anaerobically. (additional references) | |
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"Anaerobic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anaero, anaerobics, anaerotic, anareobic, anarobic, anatronic, anerbic, anerobic, Anuarbek. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anaerobic" (pronounced a'nerō"bik) |
| 4 | -ō" b i k | aerobic, claustrophobic, homophobic, phobic. |
| 3 | -b i k | acerbic, amoebic, arabic, ascorbic, cherubic, cubic, pubic, syllabic, xenophobic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: carabine. | |
-2 letters: acarine, aerobia, aerobic, bicorne, carabin, carbine, carinae, corbina, ocarina. | |
-3 letters: acinar, aeonic, arabic, arcane, arnica, beacon, bicorn, bicron, bonaci, bonier, borane, carbon, caribe, carina, carnie, coiner, corban, corbie, cornea, crania, orcein, recoin. | |
-4 letters: abaci, acari, acerb, acorn, aecia, anear, areca, areic, arena, bacon, bairn, banco, baric, baron, beano, boner, boric, borne, brace. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: abreaction, carabinero. | |
+2 letters: abreactions, bicarbonate, carabineros. | |
+3 letters: absorbancies, bicarbonates, exacerbation, incomparable, microbalance, nonbacterial, procarbazine. | |
+4 letters: abortifacient, anaerobically, bacterization, cyanobacteria, decarbonating, decarbonation, exacerbations, microbalances, overbalancing, procarbazines, recalibration, rhabdomancies. | |
+5 letters: abortifacients, bacterizations, constabularies, containerboard, contradictable, corynebacteria, craniocerebral, cyanobacterium, decarbonations, enterobacteria, inapproachable, prefabrication, rebroadcasting, recalibrations. | |
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