immobilization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The broken bones were able to heal, thanks to the immobilization of her leg in a cast."
- "Treatment of an acute occult dislocation of the ankle consists of immobilization in a snugly fitting plaster-of-paris cast, with little padding."
- "We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected during immobilizations and from hyena feces."