Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

deacetylation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English

Syllables: deacety-la-tion
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any reaction that removes one or more acetyl groups from a molecule

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English acetylation English deacetylation From de- + acetylation.

Inflected Forms

deacetylations (plural)

Questions

What does deacetylation mean?: Any reaction that removes one or more acetyl groups from a molecule
Where does deacetylation come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English acetylation English deacetylation From de- + acetylation.

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