nitrogen fixation

1. 1.

   the assimilation of atmospheric nitrogen by soil bacteria and its release for plant use on the death of the bacteria

   Broaderorganic process

Questions about nitrogen fixation

What does nitrogen fixation mean?

nitrogen fixation means "the assimilation of atmospheric nitrogen by soil bacteria and its release for plant use on the death of the bacteria".

Is nitrogen fixation a common word?

nitrogen fixation 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.