Definitions for anaerobic

anaerobic an·aer·o·bic

Spelling: [an-uh-roh-bik, an-ai-]
IPA: /ˌæn əˈroʊ bɪk, ˌæn ɛə-/

Anaerobic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 468 anagrams from letters in anaerobic (aabceinor).

Definitions for anaerobic

adjective

  1. (of an organism or tissue) living in the absence of air or free oxygen.
  2. pertaining to or caused by the absence of oxygen.

Origin of anaerobic

First recorded in 1880-85; anaerobe + -ic

Examples for anaerobic

What had been coiled taut in anaerobic tension in Rage and Yoga has unstacked and stretched out in the sun here.

The farm plans to utilize an anaerobic digester to gather waste such as left-over plant roots to generate power.

In the fall of 2010, it bought an anaerobic digestion project then under construction in London, Ontario.

It is by anaerobic organisms, in fact, that the putrefaction of dead bodies is begun.

This prevents an extension of the injury and the establishment of a good field for the growth of anaerobic bacteria.

The butyric acid bacteria are anaerobic, and thus can grow in butter and cheese away from the air.

In anaerobic digesters, organic material is mixed on a huge pot with massive quantities of tiny bacteria.

In anaerobic respiration, CO2 is given off, but no oxygen absorbed.

It was shown by Eaton and Grantham that anaerobic coagulation is slightly uncertain in action.

Further, they can be divided into two classes, the aerobic and the anaerobic.

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