Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of neutralizing.

    Neutralisierung

    нейтрализа́цияnejtralizácija

    нейтраліза́ціяnejtralizácija

More definitions
  • action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action
  • action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war
  • (euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation)
  • a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base interact with the formation of a salt; with strong acids and bases the essential reaction is the combination of hydrogen ions with hydroxyl ions to form water

Examples

1 sentences
  1. "That's genocide!" "You call it genocide, I call it preemptive neutralization of undesirable elements. Tomayto, tomahto."

    "Це геноцид!" — "Ви називаєте це геноцидом, я називаю це превентивним знешкодженням небажаних елементів. Один хрін". — deniko

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Translations

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Origin

Borrowed from French neutralisation. By surface analysis, neutral + -ization or neutralize

Borrowed from French neutralisation. By surface analysis, neutral + -ization or neutralize + -ation.

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Forms

plural: neutralizations

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action:neutralisationcounteraction
  • action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war:neutralisation
  • (euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation):neutralisation
  • a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base interact with the formation of a salt; with strong acids and bases the essential reaction is the combination of hydrogen ions with hydroxyl ions to form water:neutralisationneutralization reactionneutralisation reaction

Word family

10 related words

See also

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