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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
vulcanization is a noun meaning "process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them". It carries one recorded sense.
process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them
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 vulcanization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.