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Meaning of "autocatalytic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AUTOCATALYTIC

autocatalytic  [ˌɔːtəʊˌkætəˈlɪtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AUTOCATALYTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Autocatalytic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES AUTOCATALYTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Autocatalysis

A single chemical reaction is said to have undergone autocatalysis, or be autocatalytic, if the reaction product itself is the catalyst for that reaction. A set of chemical reactions can be said to be "collectively autocatalytic" if a number of those reactions produce, as reaction products, catalysts for enough of the other reactions that the entire set of chemical reactions is self-sustaining given an input of energy and food molecules.

Definition of autocatalytic in the English dictionary

The definition of autocatalytic in the dictionary is causing its own chemical reaction.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AUTOCATALYTIC


aerolitic
ˌɛərəˈlɪtɪk
analytic
ˌænəˈlɪtɪk
autolytic
ˌɔːtəˈlɪtɪk
biocatalytic
ˌbaɪəʊˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
catalytic
ˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
cytolytic
ˌsaɪtəˈlɪtɪk
endonucleolytic
ˌɛndəʊˌnjuːklɪəˈlɪtɪk
Glagolitic
ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk
hydrolytic
ˌhaɪdrəˈlɪtɪk
oncolytic
ˌɒŋkəˈlɪtɪk
oolitic
ˌəʊəˈlɪtɪk
paralytic
ˌpærəˈlɪtɪk
photocatalytic
ˌfəʊtəʊˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
proteolytic
ˌprəʊtɪəˈlɪtɪk
psychoanalytic
ˌsaɪkəʊænəˈlɪtɪk
rhyolitic
ˌraɪəˈlɪtɪk
spasmolytic
ˌspæzməˈlɪtɪk
thrombolytic
ˌθrɒmbəˈlɪtɪk
zeolitic
ˌziːəˈlɪtɪk
zoolitic
ˌzəʊəˈlɪtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AUTOCATALYTIC

autocade
autocar
autocarp
autocatalyse
autocatalyses
autocatalysis
autocatalyze
autocephalic
autocephalous
autocephaly
autochanger
autochthon
autochthonal
autochthonic
autochthonism
autochthonous
autochthonously
autochthony
autocidal
autoclave

WORDS THAT END LIKE AUTOCATALYTIC

amylolytic
anxiolytic
bacteriolytic
cellulolytic
cryptanalytic
dialytic
electrolytic
fibrinolytic
glycolytic
haemolytic
hemolytic
heterolytic
homolytic
lipolytic
lytic
mucolytic
myelocytic
photolytic
pyrolytic
radiolytic
sympatholytic

Synonyms and antonyms of autocatalytic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «autocatalytic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AUTOCATALYTIC

Find out the translation of autocatalytic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of autocatalytic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «autocatalytic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自催化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

autocatalítico
570 millions of speakers

English

autocatalytic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

autocatalytic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ذاتي التحفيز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

автокаталитический
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

autocatalítico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

autocatalytic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

autocatalytique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Autokatalik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

autokatalytische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己触媒的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

촉매
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Autocatalytic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

autocatalytic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தன்வினையூக்கி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वयंकृत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

otokatalitik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

autocatalytic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

autokatalityczna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

автокаталитический
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

autocatalitică
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτοκαταλυτικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

autocatalytic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

autokatalytisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

autokatalytisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of autocatalytic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AUTOCATALYTIC»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AUTOCATALYTIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about autocatalytic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AUTOCATALYTIC»

Discover the use of autocatalytic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to autocatalytic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution
This is called an autocatalytic cycle. Organisms are chock full of autocatalytic cycling — indeed, within the environments to which they are deeply coupled, they simply are autocatalytic systems of a certain sort. Moreover, not only are cells ...
Susan Oyama, Paul E. Griffiths, Russell D. Gray, 2003
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The Origins of Order: Self-organization and Selection in ...
In short, a fitness landscape exists over the set of autocatalytic sets. Because of this landscape, an adaptive flow over the space of self-reproducing systems will show historically frozen accidents and hysteresis. Sets will climb to local peaks in  ...
Stuart A. Kauffman, 1993
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Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and ...
species, reaction types, and catalytic distributions, given a sufficient diversity of molecular species, autocatalytic sets will spontaneously emerge. The diversity of molecular species required to achieve autocatalytic sets depends, more than ...
Stuart A. Kauffman, 2010
4
Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries
Another important point for the assessment of thermal risk is the identification of autocatalytic reactions. This type of reactions requires our special attention and should be clearly distinguished from nth order reactions. A screening method for  ...
O. Fredholm, A. Jacobsson, Hans J Pasman, 2001
5
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on how to Build an ...
The first sentence in this paragraph should have v' going from less than zero to more than zero. The last sentence should read "volume comparable to that of the active material. . . ." 21. Autocatalytic Methods The term "autocatalytic method" is  ...
Robert Serber, Richard Rhodes, 1992
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Models of the Ecological Hierarchy: From Molecules to the ...
The weakness in proposing multiple cooperating autocatalytic cycles is, again, the lack of chemical support. Only very few nonenzymatic autocatalytic cycles are known to exist, although we hope that the recent theoretical advances will ...
Ferenc Jordán, Sven Erik Jorgensen, 2012
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Advances in Artificial Life: 10th European Conference, ECAL ...
Still there is an issue about how to accommodate the observational fact of finite sets of types and instances of molecules in cells with the assumption of infinite autocatalytic systems considered to be represented by these cells. To resolve this  ...
György Kampis, István Karsai, Eörs Szathmáry, 2014
8
Handbook of Collective Robotics: Fundamentals and Challenges
enzymes themselves are autocatalytic, but until recently no such insight was available for the intermediate metabolism. Small molecular metabolism converts food molecules to the chemical constituents of a living being. We know that certain ...
Serge Kernbach, 2013
9
Introduction to Chemical Engineering Kinetics and Reactor Design
An autocatalytic reaction is one in which the reaction rate is proportional to a product concentration raised to a positive exponent. Some of the first articles in the literature of chemical kinetics deal with reactions of this type. For example, in 1857 ...
Charles G. Hill, Thatcher W. Root, 2014
10
Evolutionary Biology: Exobiology and Evolutionary Mechanisms
To investigate the probability, structure, and dynamics of autocatalytic sets in CRSs, we used the RAF framework and the binary polymer model to perform and analyze computational simulations and derive mathematical properties and ...
Pierre Pontarotti, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AUTOCATALYTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term autocatalytic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Platinum: Time for a cartel?
Secondary supply from the recycling of autocatalytic converters and jewellery has risen from 0.7Moz in 2004, to over 2Moz in 2014. «Moneyweb.co.za, Jul 15»
2
EIPC Summer Conference: Day 2
Applied as a surface treatment using a conventional wet process line, the Covaler bonded to the substrate surface and became autocatalytic to ... «I-Connect007, Jul 15»
3
MTT brings a stunningly imaginative conception of Beethoven to …
... role of pixels; and the pixels gradually come together as the image of a cathedral begins to emerge through an almost autocatalytic process. «Examiner.com, Jun 15»
4
ENEPIG: The Plating Process
This type of reaction is described as autocatalytic, as the deposition process will continue even after the substrate is completely covered by a ... «I-Connect007, Jun 15»
5
Global platinum demand up, supply down
... Year, and new carbon emissions legislation in Europe, which required more platinum to be used in autocatalytic converters for diesel cars. «Mineweb, May 15»
6
Patenting Big Thinking
It's intelligence might even become autocatalytic to the limits of physics. We're in the realm of deep science fiction here – Matrix level stuff. «Science 2.0, Apr 15»
7
Breaking Mendelian inheritance with CRISPR–Cas
The autocatalytic ability of MCR holds promise to accelerate genetic manipulation and genome engineering in diverse fields of research; one ... «Nature.com, Apr 15»
8
Scott Ludlam on the oldest game in town
... may have worked their way up from autocatalytic chemical reaction sequences on a heavily volcanic planet. In turn, our technology – from the ... «The Fifth Estate, Mar 15»
9
Internal Memo: Zappos is offering severance to employees who aren …
Leading scientists believe that the principal science of the next century will be the study of complex, autocatalytic, self-organizing, non-linear, ... «Quartz, Mar 15»
10
Electricity-slashing platinum game changer expected by December
Once pure metals are being produced, the manufacture of autocatalytic converters could be considered in the envisaged Platinum Valley, ... «Creamer Media's Mining Weekly, Mar 15»

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