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rearrangement

rearrangement noun: the process of rearranging.

Noun

rearrangement (countable and uncountable, plural rearrangements)

  1. The process of rearranging.
    • They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points...1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44
  2. A rearrangement reaction.

rearrangement meaning in Tamil and Assamese

rearrangement in Tamil

மீட்டொழுங்குபடுத்தல், மீளவரிசைப்படுத்துகை, மறுஅமைப்பு, அணுஇடமாற்றம், இடமாற்றம், மறுசீராக்கல்

rearrangement in Assamese

the process of rearranging
সালসলনি xalxoloni

Examples of rearrangement in a sentence

  • This is causing a reenvisagement of the whole problem and the rearrangement of our whole experimental program.
  • Another example of benzilic acid rerrangement is the rearrangement of furil into furilic acid.
  • A new systematics considers, obviously, also a rearrangement of the familiae that characterize the subordines.

All 11 example sentences with rearrangement

Forms of rearrangement

pluralrearrangements

Plural of rearrangement: rearrangements

Origin of rearrangement

From re- + arrangement or rearrange + -ment.

Words formed from rearrangement

Phrases with rearrangement

Questions about rearrangement

What does rearrangement mean?
Rearrangement means the process of rearranging.
What is rearrangement in Tamil?
Rearrangement in Tamil is மீட்டொழுங்குபடுத்தல், மீளவரிசைப்படுத்துகை, மறுஅமைப்பு. See Rearrangement meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rearrangement?
Rearrangement is a noun.
What is the plural of rearrangement?
The plural of rearrangement is rearrangements.

Words near rearrangement in the dictionary

  1. rearrangeably
  2. rearranged
  3. rearranged someone's face
  4. rearranged someone's guts
  5. rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic
  6. rearrangement
  7. rearrangement reaction
  8. rearrangement reactions
  9. rearrangements
  10. rearranger
  11. rearrangers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rearrangement (page history and authors); rearrangement (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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