ovulation

1. 1.

   the expulsion of an ovum from the ovary (usually midway in the menstrual cycle)

   Antonymsanovulation

   Broaderorganic process

Other forms of ovulation

plural

ovulations·

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 ovulation

What does ovulation mean?

ovulation means "the expulsion of an ovum from the ovary (usually midway in the menstrual cycle)".

How many syllables are in ovulation?

ovulation has 4 syllables: o-vu-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌoʊvjəˈleɪʃən/.

What is the opposite of ovulation?

The recorded antonyms are anovulation.

Is ovulation a common word?

ovulation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ovulation?

65 words rhyme with ovulation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.