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ultracentrifugation

noun

ultracentrifugation is a noun meaning “Centrifugation in an ultracentrifuge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-L-T-R-A-C-E-N-T-R-I-F-U-G-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ultracentrifugation is ultracentrifugations.

What does ultracentrifugation mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Centrifugation in an ultracentrifuge.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of ultracentrifugation

  • ultracentrifugations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is ultracentrifugation?

Ultracentrifugation appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does ultracentrifugation come from?

From ultra- + centrifugation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).