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photolyze

photolyze is the alternative spelling of photolyse.

Meaning of photolyse

Verb

photolyse (third-person singular simple present photolyses, present participle photolysing, simple past and past participle photolysed)

  1. To cause photolysis.
    • Then, fluorophores were photolysed by a high-intensity light pulse and influx was monitored at the initial low beam power.1986, I. Lang et al., “Molecular mobility and nucleocytoplasmic flux in hepatoma cells”, in Journal of Cell Biology, volume 102

Forms of photolyze

third-person singular presentphotolyzes
present participlephotolyzing
past participlephotolyzed
pastphotolyzed

Origin of photolyze

From photo + -lyze.

Words formed from photolyze

Questions about photolyze

What is photolyze the alternative spelling of?
Photolyze is the alternative spelling of photolyse.

Words near photolyze in the dictionary

  1. photolyte
  2. photolytes
  3. photolytic
  4. photolytically
  5. photolyzable
  6. photolyze
  7. photolyzed
  8. photolyzes
  9. photolyzing
  10. photom
  11. photomacrograph

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Adapted from Wiktionary: photolyze (page history and authors); photolyse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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