Nouns denoting natural proesses
- emergent evolution
- the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution
- opacification
- the process of becoming cloudy or opaque
- heterometaboly
- development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity
- economic growth
- steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income)
- sexual reproduction
- reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete
- storage
- (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk
- glaciation
- the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice
- filling
- flow into something (as a container)
- overactivity
- excessive activity
- demand-pull inflation
- inflation caused by an increase in demand or in the supply of money
- thrombolysis
- the process of breaking up and dissolving blood clots
- keratinisation
- organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and the cells become horny (as in nails and hair)
- flocculation
- the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations
- narrowing
- a decrease in width
- de-Stalinization
- social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor
- quellung reaction
- the swelling of the capsule surrounding a microorganism after reaction with an antibody; the basis of certain tests for identifying microorganisms
- sequestration
- the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions
- agenesis
- imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part
- union
- healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- healing
- the natural process by which the body repairs itself
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