OXIDATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oxidation mean? 

• OXIDATION (noun)
  The noun OXIDATION has 1 sense:

1. the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction

  Familiarity information: OXIDATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OXIDATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

oxidation; oxidisation; oxidization

Hypernyms ("oxidation" is a kind of...):

chemical reaction; reaction ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oxidation"):

calcination (the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature)

burning; combustion (a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light)

nitrification (the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants))

rust; rusting (the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water)

Derivation:

oxidate (add oxygen to or combine with oxygen)

oxidate (enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide)

 Context examples 

This gene is involved in fatty acid oxidation.

(ALOX12B Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in methylcytosine oxidation.

(Methylcytosine Dioxygenase TET2, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in oxidation of fatty acids.

(ALOX12 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in oxidation.

(ALKBH7 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in the oxidation of alcohols.

(Alcoho Dehydrogenase 1C, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the beta-oxidation of branched-chain fatty acids.

(Alpha-Methylacyl-CoA Racemase, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance that protects cells from the damage caused by free radicals (unstable molecules made by the process of oxidation during normal metabolism).

(Antioxidant, NCI Dictionary)

Once released, these fatty acids travel through the blood to other tissues such as muscle where they are oxidized to provide energy through the mitochondrial beta-oxidation pathway.

(Beta-Oxidation of Fatty Acids Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Base excision repair (BER) is the predominant DNA damage repair pathway for the processing of small base lesions, derived from oxidation and alkylation damages.

(Base Excision Repair Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

This protein plays a role in both fatty acid oxidation and leukotriene biosynthesis.

(Arachidonate 12-Lipoxygenase, 12S-Type, NCI Thesaurus)