Dictionary

maceration en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /mæsəˈɹeɪʃən/

Etymology

Latin mācerātiō.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of macerating. ▸ Soaking and softening (in combination), plus or minus dissolving.
2. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of macerating. ▸ Communition, dissolving, or any combination thereof.
   • […] proposed that the small size of the teeth […] implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing. 2001, Ralph E. Molnar, H. Trevor Clifford, “An Ankylosaurian Cololite from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia”, in Kenneth Carpenter, editor, The Armored Dinosaurs, page 404:

Forms

Deriveds

cryomaceration

Relateds

mastication

Translations (14)

fr macération (act or process of macerating) · de Aufweichen (act or process of macerating) · lv atmiekšķēšana (act or process of macerating) · es maceración (act or process of macerating) · tr maserasyon (act or process of macerating) · pl macerowanie (act or process of macerating) · pl maceracja (act or process of macerating) · la mācerātiō (act or process of macerating) · cmn 浸軟 /浸软 (act or process of macerating) · de Aufquellen (act or process of macerating) · sv maceration (act or process of macerating) · it maceramento (act or process of macerating) · gl maceración (act or process of macerating) · fi maserointi (act or process of macerating)