"desalination" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /diːˌsælɪˈneɪʃən/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-desalination.wav [Southern-England] Forms: desalinations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: de- + salination Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|de|salination}} de- + salination Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} desalination (countable and uncountable, plural desalinations)
  1. The process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water. Wikipedia link: desalination Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: desalinization, desalinisation Derived forms: desalination plant Related terms: desalinate, desalinator Translations (process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water): تَقْطِير (taqṭīr) [masculine] (Arabic), إِعْذَاب (ʔiʕḏāb) (Arabic), duzsuzlaşdırma (Azerbaijani), duzsuzlaşdırılma (Azerbaijani), 脫鹽 (Chinese Mandarin), 脱盐 (tuōyán) (Chinese Mandarin), 海水淡化 (hǎishuǐ dànhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), afsaltning [common-gender] (Danish), ontzilting [feminine] (Dutch), suolanpoisto (Finnish), dessalement [masculine] (French), Meerwasserentsalzung [feminine] (German), Entsalzung [feminine] (German), αφαλάτωση (afalátosi) [feminine] (Greek), התפלה (hatpala) [feminine] (Hebrew), desalinasi (Indonesian), dissalazione [feminine] (Italian), 脱塩 (datsuen) (alt: だつえん) (Japanese), отсолување (otsoluvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), десалинизација (desalinizacija) [feminine] (Macedonian), penyahgaraman (Malay), dêsalinnâtion [feminine] (Norman), avsalting [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), odsalanie [neuter] (Polish), desărare [feminine] (Romanian), desalinizare [feminine] (Romanian), опресне́ние (opresnénije) [neuter] (Russian), десалиниза́ция (desalinizácija) [feminine] (Russian), avsaltning (Swedish), опрі́снення (oprísnennja) (alt: води) [neuter] (Ukrainian)

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      "word": "desalinizare"
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      "sense": "process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water",
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      "word": "опрі́снення"
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}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.