AERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aeration mean? 

• AERATION (noun)
  The noun AERATION has 2 senses:

1. the process of exposing to air (so as to purify)

2. the act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent

  Familiarity information: AERATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of exposing to air (so as to purify)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Context example:

the aeration of the soil

Hypernyms ("aeration" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Derivation:

aerate (expose to fresh air)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("aeration" is a kind of...):

change of state (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)

Derivation:

aerate (impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen)

 Context examples 

One of a pair of viscera occupying the pulmonary cavities of the thorax, the organs of respiration in which aeration of the blood takes place.

(Lung, NCI Thesaurus)

The system uses a forced aeration system under the cover, which helps encourage the aerobic processes carried out by microbial populations, bacteria, and fungi.

(Scientists validate a new technology that transforms sewage sludge into fertilizer more efficiently, University of Granada)