fermentation
— Noun
– English
~ a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest"
fermentation alcohol
— Noun
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~ the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline
fermenting
— Noun
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~ a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
fermentologist
— Noun
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~ a specialist in wine making
fermi
— Noun
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~ a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
Fermi
— Noun
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~ Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954)
fermion
— Noun
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~ any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
fermium
— Noun
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~ a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
fan fern
— Noun
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~ large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia
fern family
— Noun
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~ families of ferns and fern allies
fern ally
— Noun
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~ pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida
felt fern
— Noun
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~ east Asian fern having fronds shaped like tongues; sometimes placed in genus Cyclophorus
fern
— Noun
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~ any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
ferned
— Adjective
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~ abounding in or covered with ferns; "the ferny undergrowth"