IMMUNISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immunisation mean? 

• IMMUNISATION (noun)
  The noun IMMUNISATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of making immune (especially by inoculation)

  Familiarity information: IMMUNISATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMUNISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of making immune (especially by inoculation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

immunisation; immunization

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

protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immunisation"):

inoculation; vaccination (taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease)

sensitisation; sensitising; sensitization; sensitizing (rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections)