Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

compactization

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: com-pacti-za-tion
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The clumping of chromosomes or other forms of DNA

Example Sentences

"The chromatin compactization of pachytene chromosomes of R. wichurana is 2.4 - 1.4 Mbp μm −1, calculated based on the genome size of 562 Mbp [ 52 ]."

Etymology

From compact + -ization.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: compact

Inflected Forms

compactizations (plural)

Questions

What does compactization mean?: The clumping of chromosomes or other forms of DNA
Where does compactization come from?: From compact + -ization.

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