chlorination

1. 1.

   the addition or substitution of chlorine in organic compounds

   Broaderchemical process

   Narrowerprechlorination
2. 2.

   disinfection of water by the addition of small amounts of chlorine or a chlorine compound

   Broaderdisinfection

Other forms of chlorination

plural

chlorinations·

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 chlorination

What does chlorination mean?

chlorination means "the addition or substitution of chlorine in organic compounds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chlorination?

chlorination has 5 syllables: chlo-ri-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

Is chlorination a common word?

chlorination 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.