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Alternative forms edit

  • pre-acclimation

Etymology edit

pre- +‎ acclimation

Adjective edit

preacclimation (not comparable)

  1. Prior to becoming acclimated
    a preacclimation response to sunlight.

Noun edit

preacclimation

  1. (biology) Acclimation in advance of a particular stimulus or treatment
    • 1999, Fatih Büyüksönmez et al., “Optimization of Simultaneous Chemical and Biological Mineralization of Perchloroethylene”, in Applied and Environmental Microbiology[1], volume 65, number 6:
      We previously showed that the toxic effects of Fenton's reagent were sufficiently reduced by preacclimation of microorganisms to high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide.

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