Nouns denoting natural proesses
- chemical mechanism
- the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction
- marginalization
- the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society)
- galvanisation
- stimulation with a galvanic current
- decay
- the process of gradually becoming inferior
- Nazification
- social process of adopting (or being forced to adopt) Nazism
- endothermic reaction
- a chemical reaction accompanied by the absorption of heat
- replication
- (genetics) the process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division
- nitrogen cycle
- the circulation of nitrogen; nitrates from the soil are absorbed by plants which are eaten by animals that die and decay returning the nitrogen back to the soil
- defining
- any process serving to define the shape of something
- apogamy
- (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization
- disinflation
- a reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of payments
- dithering
- the process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color
- softening
- the process of becoming softer
- relaxation
- (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers
- infructescence
- the fruiting stage of the inflorescence
- ADP
- data processing by a computer
- defense
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
- effacement
- shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor
- fragmentation
- (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk
- salivation
- the secretion of saliva
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