Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun catalysis

1 sense of catalysis

Sense 1
catalysis, contact action -- (acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction; "of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced")
       => chemical process, chemical change, chemical action -- ((chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved)