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Definitions: Neutralisation |
NeutralisationNoun1. A chemical reaction in which an acid and a base interact with the formation of a salt; with strong acids and bases the essential reaction is the combination of hydrogen ions with hydroxyl ions to form water. 2. Action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war; "the neutralization of Belgium". 3. Action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Electrical Engineering | An approximate unilateralisation usually nullifying only the reactive part of the internal feedback of a transistor. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A neutralisation of the charge residing on stationary ionised impurity atoms in a particular region of semiconductor material by a charge of mobile charge carriers in that same region, e. g. , positively-charged donor atoms neutralised by negatively-charged free electrons in the same region. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Transformation of harmful substances in decontaminated substances by chemical means. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The use of a balancing circuit in an amplifier, in such a way as to neutralise the effect of an inherent feedback, e. g. one arising from interelectrode capacitance. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Environment | The addition of an acidic substance to an alkaline one, or vice versa, in such proportions that the solution reacts neutral, i. e. neither acidic nor alkaline. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: NeutralisationSynonyms: counteraction (n), neutralisation reaction (n), neutralization (n), neutralization reaction (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: decontamination (electrical engineering, metallurgy), neutralization (medicineenvironmentelectrical engineeringelectrical engineering, post & telecom). |
Crosswords: Neutralisation |
| English words defined with "neutralisation": neutralisation reaction. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "neutralisation": archi-unit ♦ contra doping ♦ doping compensation ♦ overdoping ♦ pH-value. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "neutralisation": Neutralization. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Neutralisation" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (neutralization), French (counteraction, neutralization), German (neutralization). |
| "Neutralisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neutralisation" is used about 164 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% | 164 | 24,408 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "neutralisation": neutralisation reaction. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "neutralisation": neutralisation-provocation. | |
Ending with "neutralisation": provocation-neutralisation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
neutralisation | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "neutralisation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 中立化 (neutralise, neutralised, Neutralization, Neutralize, Neutralized, Neutralizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | neutrodynstabilisering (neutralization), neutralisering (decontamination, disabling, neutralization), neutralisation (neutralization), kompensation (compensation, indemnification, indemnity, neutralization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | neutrodynisatie (neutralization), neutraliseren (neutralization), neutralisatie (decontamination, neutralization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | neutralointi (neutralization), myrkyttömäksi tekeminen (decontamination, detoxication, detoxification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | neutrodynation (neutralization), neutrodynage (neutralization), neutralisation (neutralization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Neutralisierung (decontamination, neutralization), Neutralisieren (absorb, counteract, neutralization, neutralize, to absorb), Neutralisation (neutralization), Entgiftung (decontaminating, decontamination, detoxication, detoxification, disintoxication), Ausgleich (balance, balancing, compensation, Deuce, equalisation, equalization, equalizer, equation, evening out, neutralization, redemption, settlement, settling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξουδετέρωση (neutralization), ουδετεροποίηση ενισχυτή (neutralization), ουδετεροποίηση ατόμων προσμίξεως (neutralization), ουδετεροποίηση (neutralization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | neutralizzazione (neutralization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 중립" (Neutralization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eutralisationnay neutralizacao (neutralization), neutralização (counteraction, countercheck, decontamination, neutralization, neutralize). (various references) neutralización (counteraction, disabling, neutralization). (various references) neutralisering (counteraction, neutralization), neutralisation (neutralization). (various references) การทำให้เป็นกลาง (ตามข้อตกลงระหว่างประเทศร่วมกัน) (neutalization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: alternations, elutriations, instauration, retaliations, transitional. | |
-3 letters: alienations, alterations, alternation, antinatures, antirealist, atonalities, elutriation, insertional, laureations, literations, nationalise, nationalist, nutritional, orientalist, rationalise, rationalist, retaliation, situational, translation. | |
-4 letters: alienation, alienators, alteration, antinature, insinuator, insulation, intestinal, intolerant, iterations, itinerants, laureation, lineations, literation, lustration, natalities, natrolites, naturalise, naturalist, neutralist, nitrations, nutational, nutritions, rationales, reunionist, ruinations, salutation, sanitation, saturation, senatorial, senatorian, sinoatrial, staurolite, stentorian, tarnations, titularies, tonalities, transition, tretinoins, triennials, unitarians, uraninites, urinations. | |
-5 letters: aerations, aerialist, aeronauts, alienator, alterants, analities, annotates, annuities, anointers, antialien, antiarins, antinoise, antisolar, astronaut, atonalist, attainers, auntliest, estuarial, insatiate, insertion, insinuate, instanter, insulator, internals, internist, interunit, intitules, intonates, intranets, intrusion, iteration, itinerant, laniaries, lenitions, lineation, literatus, lunarians, lunations, nanotesla, natations, nationals, natrolite, neutrinos, nitration, nonartist, nutations, nutrients, nutrition, oralities, orientals, outlearns, outlearnt, outliners, rationale, rationals, reanoints, reattains, relations, resultant, retinulas, ritualist, ruination, saintlier, saltation, sanitoria, santolina, satiation, saturnine, serotinal, siltation, situation, solitaire, stational, stationer, sterilant, striation, sultanate, tantalise, tarletans, tarnation, tearstain, tensional, transient, translate, tretinoin, triennial, troilites, trotlines, tuitional, turnstile, turnstone, tutorials, uintaites, unilinear, unitarian, uraninite, urination. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: connaturalities, neutralizations. | |
+3 letters: denaturalizations. | |
+4 letters: supranationalities. | |
+5 letters: antirevolutionaries, counterretaliations, deindustrialization, reindustrialization. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110101 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e u t r a l i s a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0075 0074 0072 0061 006C 0069 0073 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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