Nouns denoting natural proesses
- BMR
- the rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state
- angiogenesis
- the formation of new blood vessels
- pathogenesis
- the origination and development of a disease
- sensitization
- (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations)
- ejaculation
- the discharge of semen in males
- souring
- the process of becoming sour
- synapsis
- the side by side pairing of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes at the start of meiosis
- Wolstonian glaciation
- the next-to-last Pleistocene glaciation in Britain and the deposits laid down at that time
- heredity
- the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next
- erosion
- erosion by chemical action
- bluing
- a process that makes something blue (or bluish)
- electrostatic precipitation
- a process that removes suspended dust particles from a gas by applying a high voltage electrostatic charge to the particles and collecting them on charged plates
- video digitizing
- the process of capturing and converting and storing video images for use by a computer
- accretion
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- cost-pull inflation
- inflation caused by an increase in the costs of production
- doubling
- increase by a factor of two
- maturation
- (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
- osteolysis
- lysis of bone caused by disease or infection or inadequate blood supply
- acclimatization
- adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment)
- emergent evolution
- the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution
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