Nouns denoting natural proesses
- 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
- radioactive decay
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- mechanism
- the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction
- karyokinesis
- organic process consisting of the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis
- growing
- (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
- autoradiography
- producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed
- reaction formation
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them
- random walk
- a stochastic process consisting of a sequence of changes each of whose characteristics (as magnitude or direction) is determined by chance
- refrigeration
- the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes
- karyolysis
- disintegration and dissolution of a cell nucleus when a cell dies
- rectification
- (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation
- professionalization
- the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood
- nutrition
- (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance
- gastrulation
- the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells
- ablactation
- the cessation of lactation
- metamorphism
- change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat or introduction of new chemical substances
- wane
- a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- agenesis
- imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part
- deflationary spiral
- an episode of deflation in which prices and wages decrease at an increasing rate and currency gains in value
- diplotene
- the fourth stage of the prophase of meiosis
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