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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
deamination is a noun meaning "removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound". It carries one recorded sense.
removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deamination come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.