preacclimation

preacclimation

English

Alternative forms

  • pre-acclimation

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English acclimation
English preacclimation

    From pre- + acclimation.

    Adjective

    preacclimation (not comparable)

    1. Prior to becoming acclimated
      a preacclimation response to sunlight.

    Noun

    preacclimation

    1. (biology) Acclimation in advance of a particular stimulus or treatment
      • 1999, Fatih Büyüksönmez et al., “Optimization of Simultaneous Chemical and Biological Mineralization of Perchloroethylene”, in Applied and Environmental Microbiology‎[1], volume 65, number 6:
        We previously showed that the toxic effects of Fenton's reagent were sufficiently reduced by preacclimation of microorganisms to high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide.
    • preacclimate
    • postacclimation
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