immunisation

English

Noun

immunisation (countable and uncountable, plural immunisations)

1. (British spelling, immunology) Alternative spelling of immunization
2. (rail transport, electrical engineering) The process of immunising signalling and traction power supplies so they don't interfere with each other.
   • 2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 33:

     "Secondly, we have to find more cost-effective ways of electrifying. And we've had a real breakthrough in the last couple of years in terms of bridge clearances and immunisation, meaning we've been able to take hundreds of millions of pounds off the cost of electrification.

French

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Noun

immunisation f (plural immunisations)

1. immunization

Further reading

• “immunisation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.