Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of making dry, or the state of being dry; the act or process of depriving of moisture; especially, the evaporation of the aqueous portion of a substance, as wood, meat, fruit, milk, etc., by artificial heat, as by a current of heated air.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The state or process of being desiccated
  • noun An act or occurrence of desiccating

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the process of extracting moisture
  • noun dryness resulting from the removal of water

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Examples

  • The rdar and the bdar strains were found to be equally tolerant to disinfectants, while the rdar strain was found to be more tolerant to long-term desiccation and nutrient depletion in biofilm than the bdar strain.

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  • The rdar and the bdar strains were found to be equally tolerant to disinfectants, while the rdar strain was found to be more tolerant to long-term desiccation and nutrient depletion in biofilm than the bdar strain.

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  • WASHINGTON - Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter Martian past.

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  • Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter martian past.

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  • WASHINGTON - Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter Martian past.

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  • Patterns In Mars Crater Floors Give Picture Of Drying Lakes (Sep. 16, 2009) - Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter martian ... > read more

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  • This is exactly what we see going on during the great physical changes which are accomplished over large areas in Central Asia, owing to the desiccation which is going on there since the glacial period.

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  • Results so far show that some microbes can indeed withstand the radiation, desiccation, and cold of space.

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  • Thus, it is possible that anhydrobiosis is a widespread phenomenon but that has been observed only in a few species that naturally undergo desiccation.

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