Definition of Fermenting

1. Noun. A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol.


Definition of Fermenting

1. Verb. (present participle of ferment) ¹

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Definition of Fermenting

1. ferment [v] - See also: ferment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fermenting

ferment
fermentability
fermentable
fermental
fermentation
fermentation Lactobacillus casei factor
fermentation alcohol
fermentation substrates
fermentations
fermentative
fermentative dyspepsia
fermentatively
fermented
fermenter
fermenters
fermenting
fermentologist
fermentor
fermentors
ferments
fermerere
fermes
fermillet
fermillets
fermiology
fermion
fermionic
fermionic condensate
fermionically
fermionization

Literary usage of Fermenting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"Fermenting Enzyme.—AV Lebedew' has demonstrated that the active fermenting enzyme can be extracted from dried yeast by simple maceration with water at a ..."

2. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Fermenting MUST AND Fermenting NEW WINE.1 § 404. Whilst fresh unfermented grape-juice is drunk only in the so-called grape-cure, the fermenting must, ..."

3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"SWEATING OR Fermenting. Cigar tobacco is subjected to a process of fermentation called "sweating," which should be carefully conducted, for on this depends ..."

4. Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and Geology by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1843)
"Of top-dressing with fermenting manures. If so large a waste occur in the ... it be good husbandry to spread fermenting manure as a permanent top-dressing ..."

5. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1823)
"Fermenting Pond in Massachusets. — A remarkable pon has been lately observed in Sharon, Massachusets, known by I name of Mash-Bog Pond, from which great ..."

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