dielectrolysis

Other forms of dielectrolysis

plural

dielectrolysises·

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 dielectrolysis

What does dielectrolysis mean?

dielectrolysis means "the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode".

How many syllables are in dielectrolysis?

dielectrolysis has 5 syllables: die-lec-tro-ly-sis. The stress falls on "tro".

What is another word for dielectrolysis?

Close synonyms include electrophoresis, cataphoresis, ionophoresis. 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 dielectrolysis a common word?

dielectrolysis 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.