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The act of mixing different breeds of animals
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hybridization
Word definitions for hybridization in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids [syn: hybridisation , crossbreeding , crossing , cross , interbreeding , hybridizing ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized. 2 # (context chemistry English) The linear combination of atomic orbitals in a molecule to form hybrid orbitals. 3 # (context botany English) The process of breeding a mixed offspring from two ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hybridization \Hy`brid*i*za"tion\, n. The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1824, from hybridize (1802, from hybrid + -ize ) + -ation .
Usage examples of hybridization.
The first axis of transformation involves the nature of the mixture in the constitution-a passage from the ancient and modern model of a mixtum of separate bodies or functions to a process of the hybridization of governmental functions in the current situation.
This notion of anthropological exodus is still very ambiguous, however, because its methods, hybridization and mutation, are themselves the very methods employed by imperial sovereignty.
The person who adapted my Celosia to develop in such a remarkable environment did so by a complex process of hybridization, much more elaborate than anything routinely attempted by specialist engineers.
As African birthrates continue at high levels and slums like Chicago, Washington, and Conakry proliferate, diseases spread rapidly and experts worry that viral mutations and hybridizations might conceivably result in a form of the AIDS virus easier to contact than the present strain.
His Nobel Prize was awarded for the application of quantum mechanical insights - resonances, and what is called hybridization of orbitals - to explain the nature of the chemical bond that joins atoms together into molecules.
But most evolutionary biologists believe that the species, more likely than not, is an extremely rare example of sweeping transgenic hybridization.