chemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĕm'ĭstrē
ipa: /ˈkɛm.ɪ.stɹi/
Forms: form: chemistries
Etymology: First coined 1605, from chemist + -ry. From chemist, chymist, from Latin alchimista, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from article اَل (al-) + Ancient Greek χυμεία (khumeía, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “fluid”), from χυμός (khumós, “juice”), from χέω (khéō, “I pour”).
Senses: glosses: The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations in the constitution of their molecules.
examples: text: Learning the very complicated chemistries necessary to reproduce reality into a picture using light
ref: 1979 December 29, Tia Cross, “Lesbian Family Album”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 14:
text: The aquatic chemistries of iron and manganese are similar; this “is reflected geologically in their common association in rocks of all kinds” (Bortleson and Lee, 1974).
ref: 1984, North American Lake Management Society, Lake and Reservoir Management: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference, page 250:
glosses: An application of chemical theory and method to a particular substance.
examples: text: But some microbes manage to move to new organs to get inside tumors. It’s possible that the particular chemistry inside a tumor, such as its level of oxygen, helps determine which microbes will thrive there.
ref: 2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The chemical properties and reactions of a particular organism, environment etc.
examples: text: The on-screen chemistry between the lead actors led many viewers to believe they were a couple in real life.
text: The coach attributed their losses to poor team chemistry.
text: He and [Dennis] Schröder developing pick-and-roll chemistry will certainly be an objective. [Markieff] Morris has a tendency to linger around the mid-range area after setting ball screens, but when he’s popping beyond the 3-point line, he can hurt defenses.
ref: 2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic:
glosses: The mutual attraction between two people; rapport.
examples: text: Diagnosis is presumptive by history and physical examination and is confirmed by chemistries.
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: serology
glosses: A blood test to measure the amount of various components of the serum (such as electrolytes, creatinine, and glucose).
Synonyms: word: chemistry
Meronyms: word: inorganic chemistry
word: organic chemistry
word: biochemistry
word: physical chemistry
Derived terms: actinochemistry
agrochemistry
analytical chemistry
applied chemistry
astrochemistry
atmochemistry
bacteriochemistry
biochemistry
biogeochemistry
bucket chemistry
carbochemistry
chemistry read
click chemistry
clinical biochemistry
clinical chemistry
combinatorial chemistry
computational chemistry
coordination chemistry
cosmochemistry
cryochemistry
crystallochemistry
cytochemistry
dendrochemistry
ecochemistry
electrochemistry
endochemistry
exochemistry
femtochemistry
fluorochemistry
galactochemistry
geochemistry
glaciochemistry
glycochemistry
green chemistry
hadrochemistry
haematochemistry
heliochemistry
hematochemistry
histochemistry
hydrochemistry
hydrogenochemistry
hydrogeochemistry
iatrochemistry
immunochemistry
immunocytochemistry
immunohistochemistry
inorganic chemistry
isotopic chemistry
legal chemistry
limnochemistry
lipochemistry
lithochemistry
macrochemistry
magnetochemistry
mechanochemistry
medicinal chemistry
membrane mimetic chemistry
metachemistry
metallobiochemistry
metallochemistry
meteorochemistry
microchemistry
mineralochemistry
nanochemistry
necrochemistry
neurobiochemistry
neurochemistry
nitrochemistry
nonchemistry
nuclear chemistry
nucleochemistry
oceanochemistry
oenochemistry
oleochemistry
organic chemistry
organometallic chemistry
oxy-chemistry
palaeogeochemistry
pedochemistry
petrochemistry
petrolochemistry
pharmacochemistry
photochemistry
photoelectrochemistry
photomechanochemistry
physical chemistry
physicochemistry
physiochemistry
physiological chemistry
phytochemistry
piezochemistry
plasmochemistry
pneumochemistry
polychemistry
practical chemistry
protochemistry
psychochemistry
pure chemistry
pyrochemistry
quantum chemistry
radiation chemistry
radiochemistry
regiochemistry
Reppe chemistry
selenochemistry
semiochemistry
sialochemistry
silico-chemistry
sociochemistry
soil biochemistry
soil chemistry
sonochemistry
spectrochemistry
spectroelectrochemistry
stereochemistry
suprachemistry
thanatochemistry
thermochemistry
topochemistry
toxicochemistry
tribochemistry
virochemistry
wet chemistry
xenochemistry
xylochemistry
zoöchemistry
zoochemistry
Related terms: word: alchemy
word: chemical
word: chemical equation
word: chemist
word: chemical substance
word: chemical element
word: chemical compound
word: chemical property
word: molecule
word: atom
word: chemical bond
word: chemical reaction
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