catalysis

1. 1.

   acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction

   “of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced”

   Synonymscontact action

   Broaderchemical process

   Narrowerautocatalysis

Other forms of catalysis

plural

catalyses

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about catalysis

What does catalysis mean?

catalysis means "acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction".

How many syllables are in catalysis?

catalysis has 4 syllables: ca-ta-ly-sis. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for catalysis?

Close synonyms include contact action. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is catalysis a common word?

catalysis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.