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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
nitrification is a noun meaning "the chemical process in which a nitro group is added to an organic compound (or substituted for another group in an organic compound)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the chemical process in which a nitro group is added to an organic compound (or substituted for another group in an organic compound)
the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants)
plant
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nitrification come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.