Fermentation

Noun

 * 1)  Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide
 * 2) A state of agitation or excitement; a ferment

Adjectives for Fermentation
vinous; offensive; natural.

Verbs for Fermentation
agitate to —; control —; employ —; excite to —; give rise to —; hinder —; incur —; occasion —; produce —; subject to —; suffer —; undergo —; work —; — aids; —results; — sours; — subsides.

Thesaurus
acescence, acetification, acidification, acidulation, ado, agitation, alkalization, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bubbliness, bubbling, bustle, carbonation, catalysis, chemicalization, churn, commotion, conturbation, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, effervescency, electrolysis, embroilment, excitement, feery-fary, ferment, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fizz, fizzle, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foaming, foment, frothiness, frothing, fume, fuss, hubbub, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, hydrogenation, inquietude, isomerism, jitters, jumpiness, leaven, leavening, maelstrom, malaise, metamerism, metamerization, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nitration, oxidation, oxidization, pell-mell, perturbation, phosphatization, polymerism, polymerization, position isomerism, reduction, restlessness, roil, rout, row, ruffle, saturization, seethe, seething, souring, sparkle, spumescence, stir, swirl, swirling, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, vortex, whirl, working, yeastiness

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: fermentatie, gisting
 * Finnish:
 * German: Fermentation,


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian: fermentare, fermentație
 * Slovene: vrenje
 * Swedish: jäsning, fermentering


 * Finnish:
 * Latin:


 * Slovene: vrenje


 * : ζύμωση (zímosi)
 * : fermentación

Related terms

 * ferment

Derived terms

 * alcoholic fermentation
 * malolactic fermentation
 * secondary fermentation

Etymology
From fermentatio:.

Noun

 * 1) fermentation

Related terms

 * fermenter