desorption

1. 1.

   changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state

   Broadernatural process

Other forms of desorption

plural

desorptions·

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 desorption

What does desorption mean?

desorption means "changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state".

How many syllables are in desorption?

desorption has 4 syllables: de-sorp-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

Is desorption a common word?

desorption 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.