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say it: pah-li-mur-uh-ZAY-shuhn
polymerization is a noun meaning "a chemical process that combines several monomers to form a polymer or polymeric compound". It is pronounced /ˌpɑlɪmɚəˈzeɪʃən/ — pah-li-mur-uh-ZAY-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
a chemical process that combines several monomers to form a polymer or polymeric compound
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 polymerization 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.