desiccation

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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dessiccation, from Late Latin desiccatio, desiccationem, from Latin desicco.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌdɛsɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

desiccation (countable and uncountable, plural desiccations)

1. (uncountable) The state or process of being desiccated
2. An act or occurrence of desiccating
   • 1968, M.W. Service, “The Ecology of the Immature Stages of Aedes detritus”, in Journal of Applied Ecology‎, volume 5, number 3:

     The most important mortality affecting the larval population was most probably caused by the repeated desiccations of the marsh in the summer.

Synonyms

• demoisturization/demoisturisation (rare)

Derived terms

• cryodesiccation
• desiccational
• desiccome
• electrodesiccation

Related terms

• desiccant
• desiccate
• desiccator

Translations

The state or process of being desiccated

Chinese: Mandarin: 乾燥 / 干燥 (zh) (gānzào) Finnish: kuivuminen (fi) French: dessiccation (fr) f German: Trocknung (de) f Hindi: शुष्कन (śuṣkan) Irish: triomú m Italian: essiccamento (it) m, essiccazione (it) f Japanese: 乾燥 (ja) (かんそう, kansō) Kazakh: кептіру (keptıru) Korean: 건조(乾燥) (ko) (geonjo) Occitan: dessicacion f Russian: су́шка (ru) f (súška), высыхание (ru) n (vysyxanije) Turkish: desikasyon, kuruma (tr), kurulanma (tr)