coagulation

Borrowed from Middle French coagulation, from Latin coagulatio, coagulationem. Morphologically coagulate +‎ -ion

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

coagulation (countable and uncountable, plural coagulations)

1. The precipitation of suspended particles as they increase in size by any of several physical or chemical processes. (e.g. coagulation of proteins)
2. The process by which blood forms solid clots.
3. Similar solidification of other materials (e.g. of tofu).

• dissolution
• declumping
• peptization

• coagulate

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coagulation f (plural coagulations)

1. coagulation

• “coagulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.