"elution" meaning in English

See elution in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: elutions [plural]
Etymology: From the verb elute. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*lewh₃-}} Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} elution (countable and uncountable, plural elutions)
  1. (analytical chemistry) The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Analytical chemistry Synonyms: desorption Derived forms: coelution, electroelution Translations (process of separating solvent and dissolved material): eluutio (Finnish)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for elution meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*lewh₃-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the verb elute.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "elutions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "elution (countable and uncountable, plural elutions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Analytical chemistry",
          "orig": "en:Analytical chemistry",
          "parents": [
            "Chemistry",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "coelution"
        },
        {
          "word": "electroelution"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1884 May 29, The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, volume 1, page 324",
          "text": "The quicker the alkali salts are removed during elution, the less chance will there be of forming insoluble lime salts, consequently the melassate which offers the greatest surface to the action of the alcohol will be best and quickest washed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent."
      ],
      "id": "en-elution-en-noun-CW0MsP0S",
      "links": [
        [
          "analytical",
          "analytical"
        ],
        [
          "chemistry",
          "chemistry"
        ],
        [
          "absorbed",
          "absorbed"
        ],
        [
          "solvent",
          "solvent"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "analytical chemistry",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(analytical chemistry) The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "desorption"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "process of separating solvent and dissolved material",
          "word": "eluutio"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "elution"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "coelution"
    },
    {
      "word": "electroelution"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*lewh₃-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the verb elute.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "elutions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "elution (countable and uncountable, plural elutions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewh₃-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Analytical chemistry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1884 May 29, The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, volume 1, page 324",
          "text": "The quicker the alkali salts are removed during elution, the less chance will there be of forming insoluble lime salts, consequently the melassate which offers the greatest surface to the action of the alcohol will be best and quickest washed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "analytical",
          "analytical"
        ],
        [
          "chemistry",
          "chemistry"
        ],
        [
          "absorbed",
          "absorbed"
        ],
        [
          "solvent",
          "solvent"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "analytical chemistry",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(analytical chemistry) The process of removing materials that are absorbed with a solvent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "desorption"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "process of separating solvent and dissolved material",
      "word": "eluutio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "elution"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.