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Definition: Vitrification |
VitrificationNoun1. The process of becoming vitreous. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vitrification" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Note: Vitrification \Vit`ri*fi*ca"tion\, noun. [See Vitrify.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | Transformation by heat treatment of a substance or mixture into a product containing a large proportion of vitreous phase, giving the material a negligible apparent porosity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | An act, or instance, or the process of vitrifying or making glassy; thecondition of being vitrified; a vitrified body. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | The incorporation of radioactive waste oxides into glass(also known as vitrification). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the context of Cryonics, Vitrification is intended to fully maintain the information encoded in the patient's brain. Early cryonicists were frozen rather than vitrified. Microscopic analysis of the results suggests that very poor preservation of structure resulted.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vitrification."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hardness | Induration, petrifaction; lapidification, lapidescence; vitrification, ossification; crystallization. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vitrification |
| English words defined with "vitrification": Frit, Frit brick ♦ vitrify. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vitrification": bond clay ♦ glassification ♦ In-Situ Vitrification ♦ overfiring ♦ tight-burning clay ♦ vitrification spalling, vitrified brick. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "vitrification": Vitrifaction. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vitrification" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (glazing, varnishing, vitrification). |
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Business | Korea also is seeking advanced technologies such as pyrolysis, solidification and vitrification equipment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vitrification" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vitrification" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
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 |
vitrification | 4 |
development formulation glass vitrification waste | 3 |
amiante vitrification | 3 |
international technology vitrification | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vitrification"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تزجيج (glazing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | превръщане в стъкло. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forglasset affald og affald fra forglasning (vitrified wastes and wastes from vitrification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verglazen (glaze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lasitus (glaze, glazing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vitrification. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verglasung (glass cover, glazing, transparency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υαλοποίηση (vitrifaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vetrificazione (glassification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itrificationvay vitrificação (fritting, glassification, sintering). (various references) превращение в стекло или в стекловидное вещество. (various references) vitrificado (fired-on, glassification), vitrificación (glassification). (various references) vitrifiering, förglasning. (various references) sự nấu th nh thuỷ tinh, sự hoá th nh thuỷ tinh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vitrification": vitrifications. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "vitrification": devitrification. (additional references) | |
Words containing "vitrification": devitrifications. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "vitrification" (pronounced 'Vit`ri*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-f-i-i-i-i-n-o-r-t-t-v" | |
-4 letters: initiator, vitiation. | |
-5 letters: antiriot, citation, fraction, friction, traction, victoria, vitiator. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-i-i-i-n-o-r-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: vitrifications. | |
+2 letters: devitrification. | |
+3 letters: devitrifications. | |
+5 letters: overidentification. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i t r i f i c a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0074 0072 0069 0066 0069 0063 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56758684757275696786758180 |
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