stabilization

English

Alternative forms

• stabilisation (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

From stabilize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: stā'-bəl-ĭz-āʹ-shən, stā'-bəl-īz-āʹ-shən, IPA^(key): /ˌsteɪ.bəl.ɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌsteɪ.bəl.aɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sta‧bil‧iz‧a‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

stabilization (countable and uncountable, plural stabilizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (uncountable) The process of stabilizing.
2. (countable) The result of being stabilized.
   • 1989, John E. Leffler, Rates and Equilibria of Organic Reactions as Treated by Statistical, Thermodynamic, and Extrathermodynamic Methods:

     The use of solvent stabilizations for individual reagents is analogous to the use of heats of formation to compute heats of reaction.

3. (medicine, uncountable) A preliminary medical process for sick or injured people to attempt to keep their medical condition from deteriorating too much and too quickly before being treated in depth at a medical facility.

Hyponyms

• self-stabilization

Derived terms

• acidostabilization
• biostabilization
• destabilization
• gyrostabilization
• hyperstabilization
• overstabilization
• photostabilization
• phytostabilization
• restabilization
• stabilization fund
• superstabilization
• thermostabilization
• vermistabilization

Translations

process of stabilizing

Bulgarian: стабилиза́ция (bg) f (stabilizácija) Chinese: Mandarin: 穩定化 / 稳定化 (wěndìnghuà), 安定化 (zh) (āndìnghuà) Czech: stabilizace (cs) f Finnish: stabilointi (fi) French: stabilisation (fr) f Georgian: სტაბილიზაცია (sṭabilizacia) German: Stabilisierung (de) f Indonesian: stabilisasi (id); penstabilan (id); penstabiliasasian Italian: stabilizzazione (it) f Japanese: 安定化 (あんていか, anteika) Russian: стабилиза́ция (ru) f (stabilizácija) Spanish: estabilización f Swedish: stabilisering (sv) c Tagalog: pag-stabilize; pagpapapanatag; pagpapatatag Turkish: stabilizasyon (tr)

References

• stabilization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• albitizations