electrophoresis

Other forms of electrophoresis

plural

electrophoresises·

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 electrophoresis

What does electrophoresis mean?

electrophoresis 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 electrophoresis?

electrophoresis has 6 syllables: el-ec-tro-pho-res-is. The stress falls on "res". In IPA it is /ˌɪˌlɛktɹoʊfɔˈɹɪsɪs/.

What is another word for electrophoresis?

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

electrophoresis 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.