centrifugation

English

Etymology

From centrifuge +‎ -ation.

Noun

centrifugation (countable and uncountable, plural centrifugations)

1. The process in which mixtures are separated using the centripetal force generated by spinning in a centrifuge.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 339:

     “Was the RNA degraded in the centrifugation step?”

Derived terms

• centrifugational
• cryocentrifugation
• cytocentrifugation
• microcentrifugation
• postcentrifugation
• recentrifugation
• ultracentrifugation

 

Translations

process in which mixtures are separated using centripetal force

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 離心分離 / 离心分离 (líxīn fēnlí)

• Galician: centrifugación (gl) f
• Indonesian: sentrifugasi
• Irish: lártheifneoiriú m, lártheifneoiriúchán m
• Italian: centrifugazione (it) f
• Japanese: 遠心分離 (ja) (えんしんぶんり, enshinbunri)
• Malay: pengemparan
• Russian: центрифугирование (ru) f (centrifugirovanije)

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

centrifugation f (plural centrifugations)

1. centrifugation

Further reading

• “centrifugation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.