nucleation

See also: nucléation

English

Noun

nucleation (countable and uncountable, plural nucleations)

1. (physics) The first stage of a phase transition in a small region.
2. (biology) The formation of cell nuclei.

Derived terms

• binucleation
• centronucleation
• denucleation
• epinucleation
• exonucleation
• heteronucleation
• micronucleation
• misnucleation
• mononucleation
• multinucleation
• postnucleation
• prenucleation
• renucleation
• tetranucleation
• tribonucleation

 

Translations

first stage of a phase transition in a small region

• Bulgarian: зародишообразуване n (zarodišoobrazuvane)
• Finnish: nukleaatio (fi), ydintyminen (fi)
• Malay: pemusatan
• Portuguese: nucleação f
• Spanish: nucleación f

formation of cell nuclei

• Finnish: ydintyminen (fi), nukleaatio (fi)
• Malay: penukleusan, pemusatan
• Portuguese: nucleação f

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• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} nucleație f, ^{(please verify)} nucleere f

Anagrams

• innoculate