titration

See also: Titration

English

Etymology

From titrate +‎ -ion, see titrate.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /taɪˈtɹeɪʃən/, /tɪˈtɹeɪʃən/

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Noun

titration (countable and uncountable, plural titrations)

1. (analytical chemistry) The determination of the concentration of some substance in a solution by slowly adding measured amounts of some other substance (normally using a burette) until a reaction is shown to be complete, for instance by the colour change of an indicator.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with tetration.

Derived terms

• back titration
• Karl Fischer titration
• titrational

Related terms

• titre
• titrate

Translations

determination of concentration, by addition of reagent until completion of reaction

• Arabic: مُعَايَرَة f (muʕāyara)
• Bulgarian: титруване n (titruvane)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 滴定 (dik⁶ ding⁶)

  Mandarin: 滴定 (zh) (dīdìng)

• Czech: titrace f
• Danish: titrering c
• Finnish: titraus (fi)
• French: titrage (fr) m
• German: Titration (de) f
• Greek: ογκομέτρηση f (ogkométrisi)
• Indonesian: titrasi (id)
• Italian: titolazione (it) f
• Malay: pentitratan (ms)
• Maori: tātairanga kukū
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: titrering (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: titrering f

• Polish: miareczkowanie n, alkacymetria f
• Portuguese: titulação (pt) f
• Slovak: titrácia
• Spanish: valoración (es) f, titulación f
• Vietnamese: chuẩn độ

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