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say it: ahk-suh-DAY-shuhn
oxidation is a noun meaning "the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction". It is pronounced /ˌɑksəˈdeɪʃən/ — ahk-suh-DAY-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction
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 oxidation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.