oxidisation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of oxidization.
British usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It suspects the contacts of the SIS [sand isolation switch] had become oxidised, which would prevent current from flowing. But it thinks this might have taken place after the accident, but before RAIB examined the switch, because oxidisation is more likely when there's no current, as happens when the train sits unused."
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
oxidisations (plural)
oxidization (alternative, British)