hydrolysis

1. 1.

   a chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds; involves the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion from the water

   Broaderchemical reaction

Other forms of hydrolysis

plural

hydrolysises·

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 hydrolysis

What does hydrolysis mean?

hydrolysis means "a chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds; involves the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion from the water".

How many syllables are in hydrolysis?

hydrolysis has 4 syllables: hy-dro-ly-sis. The stress falls on "dro". In IPA it is /haɪˈdɹɑləsəs/.

Is hydrolysis a common word?

hydrolysis 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.