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Etymology
pre- + acclimation
Adjective
preacclimation (not comparable)
- Prior to becoming acclimated
- a preacclimation response to sunlight.
Noun
preacclimation
- (biology) Acclimation in advance of a particular stimulus or treatment
1999, Fatih Büyüksönmez et al., “Optimization of Simultaneous Chemical and Biological Mineralization of Perchloroethylene”, in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, volume 65, number 6:We previously showed that the toxic effects of Fenton's reagent were sufficiently reduced by preacclimation of microorganisms to high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide.
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