REMEDIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remediation mean? 

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

1. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMEDIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

redress; remediation; remedy

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

correction; rectification (the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right)

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

salve (anything that remedies or heals or soothes)

Derivation:

remediate (set straight or right)

 Context examples 

Environmental engineering focusing on issues related to water quality management and remediation.

(Environmental Engineering, Water, NCI Thesaurus)

Environmental engineering focusing on issues related to land management and pollution remediation.

(Environmental Engineering, Land, NCI Thesaurus)

Environmental engineering focusing on issues related to air quality management and remediation.

(Environmental Engineering, Atmosphere, NCI Thesaurus)

This discovery at the chemistry-biology interface is a first step toward developing new sustainable materials and practices and providing the groundwork for possible remediation approaches.

(Nanoparticles may have bigger impact on the environment than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

Researchers from the Cambridge Graphene Centre prepared and tested the composite, confirming its ability to photocatalytically degrade pollutant molecules, then researchers at Italcementi applied the coating to concrete to investigate its potential for environmental remediation.

(Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution, University of Cambridge)