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catalysize

UK/kəˈtælɪsaɪz/

catalysize verb: tob accelerate (a process) by catalysis.

Verb

catalysize (third-person singular simple present catalysizes, present participle catalysizing, simple past and past participle catalysized)

  1. (also, figuratively, transitive) Tob accelerate (a process) by catalysis.
    • It is vitally necessary to change the leadership and to reorganize, revitalize and catalysize the agencies enjoined or engaged for the work performance.1946: the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack and the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War...
    • The hemoglobin of the blood carries oxygen but does not directly catalysize oxidation.1973, Robert E. Cornish, Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies, Health Research Books, →ISBN, page 105

Examples of catalysize in a sentence

  • Such low cost components in turn will make the realization of cost effective terminals possible and, hopefully, catalysize a large consumer market […]1984: IEEE Electron Devices Society, Digest of Technical Papers, volume 2, page ? (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
  • […] do not catalysize the ortho - para conversion, judging from the lack of correlation with the clouds.1989, Józef Szudy, editor, Spectral Line Shapes: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes Torun, Poland...

Forms of catalysize

third-person singular presentcatalysizes
present participlecatalysizing
past participlecatalysized
pastcatalysized

Origin of catalysize

After the Ancient Greek καταλυσίζω (katalusízō); compare catalyse, analysize, paralysize.

Questions about catalysize

What does catalysize mean?
Catalysize means tob accelerate (a process) by catalysis.
How do you use catalysize in a sentence?
Such low cost components in turn will make the realization of cost effective terminals possible and, hopefully, catalysize a large consumer market […]
What part of speech is catalysize?
Catalysize is a verb.
How do you pronounce catalysize?
Catalysize is pronounced /kəˈtælɪsaɪz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of catalysize?
The past tense of catalysize is catalysized.

Words near catalysize in the dictionary

  1. catalyser
  2. catalysers
  3. catalyses
  4. catalysing
  5. catalysis
  6. catalysize
  7. catalyst
  8. catalystic
  9. catalysts
  10. catalytic
  11. catalytic activities

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