rearrangement
See also: réarrangement
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From re- + arrangement or rearrange + -ment.
Noun
[edit]rearrangement (countable and uncountable, plural rearrangements)
- The process of rearranging.
- 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:
- They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the electric control or sub-stations; and a large electric car shed.
- (chemistry) A rearrangement reaction.
Derived terms
[edit]- allylic rearrangement
- Bamberger rearrangement
- Beckmann rearrangement
- Brook rearrangement
- Claisen rearrangement
- Cope rearrangement
- Curtius rearrangement
- di-pimethane rearrangement
- Hofmann rearrangement
- Kornblum-DeLaMare rearrangement
- Lossen rearrangement
- microrearrangement
- photorearrangement
- pinacol rearrangement
- rearrangement reaction
- Schmidt rearrangement
- semipinacol rearrangement
- Skattebøl rearrangement
- Stieglitz rearrangement
- Wolff rearrangement
Translations
[edit]the process of rearranging
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chemistry: rearrangement reaction
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