Nouns denoting natural proesses
- aldol reaction
- a reaction of aldehydes resulting in an aldol
- ebbing
- a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- new line
- the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on the next line
- flare
- a sudden burst of flame
- concurrent operation
- two or more operations performed at the same time (or within a give interval)
- decay
- the process of gradually becoming inferior
- regeneration
- (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs
- quickening
- the process of showing signs of life
- Markoff chain
- a Markov process for which the parameter is discrete time values
- photoelectric emission
- the release or absorption of quanta above a certain energy level
- evolution
- (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
- succession
- (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
- Saale glaciation
- the next-to-last Pleistocene glaciation in northern Europe and the deposits laid down at that time
- eburnation
- a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory
- shedding
- the process whereby something is shed
- anabolism
- the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy
- flocculation
- the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations
- dissimilation
- breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy
- electrolysis
- (chemistry) a chemical decomposition reaction produced by passing an electric current through a solution containing ions
- ultracentrifugation
- centrifugation at very high speeds
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