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fermentations

fermentations is the plural of fermentation.

Meaning of fermentation

Noun

fermentation (countable and uncountable, plural fermentations)

  1. Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide
  2. A state of agitation or excitement; a ferment.
    • [T]he Grace that is then given to us is like a piece of Leven put into a lump of dough, and Faith and Repentance do in all the periods of our life put it into fermentation and activity.1678, Jeremy Taylor, “The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […]. The First Part.”, in Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […]...

Phrases with fermentations

Questions about fermentations

What is fermentations the plural of?
Fermentations is the plural of fermentation.

Words near fermentations in the dictionary

  1. fermentates
  2. fermentation
  3. fermentation lock
  4. fermentation locks
  5. fermentational
  6. fermentations
  7. fermentative
  8. fermentatively
  9. fermentativeness
  10. fermentatory
  11. fermented

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