Aeration

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of airing or of exposing to the action of the air: as, the aëration of soil by plowing, harrowing, etc.
  • noun. The act or operation of mixing or saturating with a gas, as carbonic-acid gas or common air.
  • noun. In physiology, the arterialization of the venous blood by respiration in the higher animals, and by corresponding processes in the lower animals.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Exposure to the free action of the air; airing
  • noun. A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.
  • noun. The act or preparation of charging a liquid with carbon dioxide gas to make it effervescent.
  • noun. the act of charging a liquid with air or oxygen for the purpose of purification.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The process by which air is circulated through or mixed with a substance such as soil or a liquid.
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  • noun. the process of exposing to air (so as to purify)
  • noun. the act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent
    • Word Usage
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    Equivalent
    aëration  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    action  activity  change of state  natural action  natural process  
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    camber  colostomy  conservancy  cross-gartered  cystostomy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    airing  arterialization  
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