stabilization

English

Etymology tree

English stable

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English stabilize

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English stabilization

enPR: stā'-bəl-ĭz-āʹ-shən, stā'-bəl-īz-āʹ-shən, IPA^(key): /ˌsteɪ.bəl.ɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌsteɪ.bəl.aɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/
enPR: stăb'-əl-ĭz-āʹ-shən, stăb'-əl-īz-āʹ-shən, (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ˌst̪ab.əl.ɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌst̪ab.əl.aɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌstæb-/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Hyphenation: sta‧bil‧iz‧a‧tion
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

stabilization (countable and uncountable, plural stabilizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

(uncountable) The process of stabilizing.
(countable) The result of being stabilized.
- 1989, John E. Leffler, Rates and Equilibria of Organic Reactions as Treated by Statistical, Thermodynamic, and Extrathermodynamic Methods:
  The use of solvent stabilizations for individual reagents is analogous to the use of heats of formation to compute heats of reaction.
(medicine, uncountable) A preliminary medical process for sick or injured people to attempt to keep their medical condition from deteriorating too much and too quickly before being treated in depth at a medical facility.

process of stabilizing