deamination

1. 1.

   removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound

   Synonymsdeaminization

   Broaderchemical process

Other forms of deamination

plural

deaminations·

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 deamination

What does deamination mean?

deamination means "removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound".

How many syllables are in deamination?

deamination has 6 syllables: de-a-mi-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for deamination?

Close synonyms include deaminization. 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 deamination a common word?

deamination 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.