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 and divides as die-lec-tro-ly-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.