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PRONUNCIATION OF RAREFACTION

rarefaction  [ˌrɛərɪˈfækʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RAREFACTION

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Rarefaction is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RAREFACTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rarefaction

Rarefaction is the reduction of an item's density, the opposite of compression. Like compression, which can travel in waves, rarefaction waves also exist in nature. A common rarefaction wave is the area of low relative pressure following a shock wave. Rarefaction waves expand with time; in most gases rarefaction waves keep the same overall profile at all times throughout the wave's movement: it is a self-similar expansion. Each part of the wave travels at the local speed of sound, in the local medium. This expansion behaviour is in contrast to the behaviour of pressure increases, which get narrower with time, until they steepen into shock waves.

Definition of rarefaction in the English dictionary

The definition of rarefaction in the dictionary is the act or process of making less dense or the state of being less dense.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RAREFACTION


arefaction
ˌærɪˈfækʃən
assuefaction
ˌæswɪˈfækʃən
benefaction
ˌbɛnɪˈfækʃən
calefaction
ˌkælɪˈfækʃən
dissatisfaction
dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən
faction
ˈfækʃən
liquefaction
ˌlɪkwɪˈfækʃən
madefaction
ˌmædɪˈfækʃən
olfaction
ɒlˈfækʃən
petrifaction
ˌpɛtrɪˈfækʃən
putrefaction
ˌpjuːtrɪˈfækʃən
satisfaction
ˌsætɪsˈfækʃən
self-satisfaction
ˌselfsætɪsˈfækʃən
stupefaction
ˌstjuːpɪˈfækʃən
tabefaction
ˌtæbɪˈfækʃən
tepefaction
ˌtɛpɪˈfækʃən
torrefaction
ˌtɒrɪˈfækʃən
tumefaction
ˌtjuːmɪˈfækʃən
unsatisfaction
ˌʌnsætɪsˈfækʃən
vivification
ˌvɪvɪˈfækʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RAREFACTION

rarae aves
rare
rare bird
rare earth
rare gas
rare-earth element
rarebit
raree show
rarefactional
rarefactive
rarefiable
rarefication
rareficational
rarefied
rarefier
rarefies
rarefy
rarely
rareness
rareripe

WORDS THAT END LIKE RAREFACTION

accreditation
action
attraction
auction
collection
connection
construction
correction
course of action
detection
direction
election
fiction
function
introduction
production
protection
reaction
section
selection
transaction

Synonyms and antonyms of rarefaction in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «rarefaction» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RAREFACTION

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

Translator English - Chinese

稀疏
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rarefacción
570 millions of speakers

English

rarefaction
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विरल करना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفراغ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

разрежения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rarefação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তনুভবন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

raréfaction
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rarefaction
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verdünnung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

希薄化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

진공
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rarefaction
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ít không khí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செரிவின்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घनता कमी होण्याची कृती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

seyreltme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rarefazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozrzedzenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розрідження
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rarefiere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αραίωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verdunning
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

FÖRTUNNANDE
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vakuum,
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rarefaction

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RAREFACTION»

The term «rarefaction» is regularly used and occupies the 72.650 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RAREFACTION» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAREFACTION»

Discover the use of rarefaction in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rarefaction and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Waves
Chapter. 22. Rarefaction. Waves. Earlier we saw how intersecting characteristics led to the construction of shock wave solutions of a conservation law. In this chapter we will examine a problem at the other extreme: in nonlinear conservation ...
Roger Knobel
2
The Pathophysiology of the Microcirculation
Rarefaction A reduction in the number of perfused vessels has been termed rarefaction. It is either functional — vessels nonperfused but present, or structural — vessels physically absent. Capillary rarefaction in the conjunctiva of hypertensive ...
Nicholas A. Mortillaro, Aubrey E. Taylor, 1994
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Biological Data in Water Pollution Assessment: Quantitative ...
Daniel Simberloff1 Use of Rarefaction and Related Methods in Ecology REFERENCE: Simberloff, Daniel, "Use of Rarefaction and Related Methods in Ecology," Biological Data in Water Pollution Assessment: Quantitative and Statistical ...
Kenneth L. Dickson John Cairns Robert J. Livingston, Robert J. Livingston, Kenneth L. Dickson, John Cairns, 1978
4
Blood Vessel Changes in Hypertension Structure and Function
pulmonary hypertension and cystic fibrosis, patients with increased pulmonary artery pressure have right ventricular hypertrophy, increased thickness of the arterial wall, and rarefaction of arterioles in the lung.5" Patients with primary ...
R.M.K.W. Lee, 1989
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Supersonic Flow and Shock Waves
Thus the wave is a rarefaction wave. Also, as seen from Section 40, the velocity dx/dt = u + c of the forward sound waves changes in the same sense as the gas velocity u and therefore, since the velocity u and hence t: |- • J~"r,??.se, the straight ...
Richard Courant, Kurt Otto Friedrichs, 1976
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Environmental Microbiology
For instance, one could sample many grassland and forest sites and draw rarefaction curves for every sample. If the rarefaction curves of the two habitats differ consistently in observed richness for a common sampling effort n, then one could ...
Jared R. Leadbetter, 2005
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Blast Waves
A good description of the rarefaction wave can be found in [5], and includes physical arguments for the impossibility of a rarefaction shock. A rarefaction wave is generated when a gas is expanded, as apposed to a shock wave which is formed ...
Charles E. Needham, 2010
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Advanced Therapy in Hypertension and Vascular Disease
An old finding in patients with hypertension is that they have fewer blood vessels per tissue volume, a phenomenon known as vascular rarefaction. It is unclear whether rarefaction precedes the onset of hypertension or results from the elevated ...
Emile R. Mohler, Raymond R. Townsend, 2006
9
Hearing: Its Physiology and Pathophysiology
Clicks can be either condensation clicks or rarefaction clicks. Condensation clicks move the tympanic membrane (initially) inward while rarefaction clicks cause movement of the tympanic membrane in the opposite direction. In attempts to ...
Aage R. Møller, 2000
10
High-Energy-Density Physics: Fundamentals, Inertial Fusion, ...
As a result, there will be a rarefaction in the shocked material, and a strong shock will be driven forward into the unshocked material. One can see this shock and rarefaction in the rightmost curves in Fig. 4.21. Soon after the rarefaction forms, ...
R. Paul Drake, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAREFACTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rarefaction is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Acoustic levitation - floating on air
To apply that to acoustic levitation, we need to introduce and explain two other terms: compression and rarefaction. While compression involves an area of ... «E&T magazine, May 15»
2
Composition of soil microbiome along elevation gradients in …
Chao1 index, rarefaction and the Shannon index were calculated to estimate the alpha diversity. Total 4603 OTUs (defined using a 97% cut off value) were ... «BMC Blogs Network, Mar 15»
3
Acoustic waves characterize proton beams
Each acoustic trace consists of two peaks, known as α and γ, each containing a compression and a rarefaction portion. The authors propose that the α peak ... «Medical Physics Web, Nov 14»
4
Sound Science: Do-Re-Mi with Straws
The compressions and rarefactions are rapidly transmitted through the air from the original source as a wave, making sound. Sound itself is a wave, a pattern, ... «Scientific American, Mar 14»
5
New Trove of Canadian Fossils Expands Knowledge of Cambrian …
Fossil collecting follows a so-called rarefaction curve, which describes the rate at which new species are found as time goes on. The curve always levels off as ... «KQED, Feb 14»
6
How Do You Levitate Things With Sound?
Real sound isn't just compressions in the air but also rarefactions. A rarefaction is a region of decreased pressure in the air where the air balls are farther apart ... «Wired, Jan 14»
7
Scientists closer to linking community structure to carbon cycling …
The figure shown here depicts rarefaction curves showing the number of observed species when DNA sequence data were rarefied as a function of the number ... «Phys.Org, Oct 13»
8
Noctua Demonstrates World's First CPU Cooler with Active Noise …
The noise, like any sound, is composed of alternating compression and rarefaction phases, which the human ear perceive as sound. By creating an inverted ... «X-bit Labs, Jun 13»
9
Ancient Philosophers: The Ionians, Anaximenes
Air, through the two opposite processes of condensation and rarefaction, which are due to heat and cold, has generated fire, wind, clouds, water, heaven and ... «The Moral Liberal, Oct 12»
10
Some dinosaurs declined before asteroid extinction
But looking across continents and multiple sub-groups (or clades), the team comes to a more nuanced view, via "rarefaction" analyses designed to assess ... «USA TODAY, May 12»

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