stabilization

• stabilisation (non-Oxford British English)

From stabilize + -ation.

• enPR: stā'-bəl-ĭz-āʹ-shən, stā'-bəl-īz-āʹ-shən, IPA^(key): /ˌsteɪ.bəl.ɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌsteɪ.bəl.aɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/
• enPR: stăb'-əl-ĭz-āʹ-shən, stăb'-əl-īz-āʹ-shən, (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ˌst̪ab.əl.ɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌst̪ab.əl.aɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌstæb-/

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• Hyphenation: sta‧bil‧iz‧a‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

stabilization (countable and uncountable, plural stabilizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (uncountable) The process of stabilizing.
2. (countable) The result of being stabilized.
   • 1989, John E. Leffler, Rates and Equilibria of Organic Reactions as Treated by Statistical, Thermodynamic, and Extrathermodynamic Methods:

     The use of solvent stabilizations for individual reagents is analogous to the use of heats of formation to compute heats of reaction.

3. (medicine, uncountable) A preliminary medical process for sick or injured people to attempt to keep their medical condition from deteriorating too much and too quickly before being treated in depth at a medical facility.

• self-stabilization

• stabilization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• albitizations