immobilization

English

Alternative forms

• immobilisation

Etymology

From French immobilisation or im- +‎ mobilization or immobilize +‎ -ation.

Noun

immobilization (countable and uncountable, plural immobilizations)

1. The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.

   The broken bones were able to heal, thanks to the immobilization of her leg in a cast.

2. (soil science) The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.

Antonyms

• mobilization

Translations

the act or process of preventing a thing from moving

• Catalan: immobilització f
• French: immobilisation (fr) f
• Galician: inmobilización (gl) f
• Italian: immobilizzazione (it) f
• Polish: unieruchomienie (pl) n, unieruchamianie n
• Portuguese: imobilização (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian: imobilizacija (sh) f
• Slovak: imobilizácia
• Spanish: inmovilización f