Nouns denoting natural proesses
- pinocytosis
- process by which certain cells can engulf and incorporate droplets of fluid
- petrifaction
- the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape
- bacteriolysis
- dissolution or destruction of bacteria
- telophase
- the final stage of mitosis
- precession of the equinoxes
- a slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic caused by precession of the Earth's axis of rotation
- chain reaction
- a series of chemical reactions in which the product of one is a reactant in the next
- boiling
- the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas
- pathologic process
- an organic process occurring as a consequence of disease
- assimilation
- a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
- zygotene
- the second stage of the prophase of meiosis
- conversion
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
- urbanization
- the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
- Anglicization
- the act of anglicizing; making English in appearance
- fractionation
- a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
- deflagration
- combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat
- irruption
- a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population
- natural process
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- open-hearth process
- a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace
- background processing
- the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system
- Bessemer process
- an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost
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