acidification

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French acidification, equivalent to acid +‎ -ification.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌsɪdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

acidification (countable and uncountable, plural acidifications)

1. The act or process of making something sour (acidifying), or changing into an acid.
   • 2013 October 3, Roger Harrabin, “Health of oceans 'declining fast'”, in bbc.co.uk‎, retrieved 5 October 2013:

     Coral reefs, for instance, are suffering from the higher temperatures and the effects of acidification whilst also being weakened by bad fishing practices, pollution, siltation and toxic algal blooms.

   Antonym: acidulation

   Antonym: basification

Derived terms

• deacidification
• hyperacidification
• ocean acidification
• reacidification
• soil acidification

Related terms

• acidify

Translations

the act or process of making something sour (acidifying), or changing into an acid

Bulgarian: подкисляване n (podkisljavane) Catalan: acidificació f Chinese: Mandarin: 酸化 (zh) (suānhuà) Dutch: verzuring (nl) f Finnish: happamoittaminen (fi) (act), happamoituminen (fi) (process) French: acidification (fr) f German: Säurebildung f, Säuerung f, Säuern n, Versäuerung f, Ansäuerung f, Azidifikation f, Versauerung f Greek: οξίνιση f (oxínisi) Interlingua: acidification Italian: acidificazione (it) f Japanese: 酸性化 (さんせいか, sanseika) Maori: whakakawatanga, whakawaikawatanga Portuguese: acidificação f Romanian: acidificare (ro) f Russian: окисле́ние (ru) n (okislénije), подкисле́ние (ru) n (podkislénije), кислова́ние n (kislovánije) Spanish: acidificación f Swedish: syrning, försurning (sv) (of land or water)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.si.di.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

acidification f (plural acidifications)

1. acidification

Further reading

• “acidification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.