oxidative

English

Etymology

From oxide +‎ -ative or oxidate +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑk.səˌdeɪ.tɪv/

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Adjective

oxidative (not comparable)

1. (chemistry) Of, relating to, or produced by oxidation.
   • 2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 4 January 2017, page 83:

     It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

Antonyms

• reductive

Derived terms

• antioxidative
• autooxidative
• electrooxidative
• hyperoxidative
• inoxidative
• nitrooxidative
• nonoxidative
• oxidatively
• oxidative phosphorylation
• oxidative stress
• photooxidative
• preoxidative
• prooxidative
• superoxidative

Translations

Relating to oxidation

French: oxydatif (fr) Hungarian: oxidatív (hu) Indonesian: oksidatif Italian: ossidativo Portuguese: oxidativo Spanish: oxidativo

German

Adjective

oxidative

1. inflection of oxidativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular