anaerobic

[ an-uh-roh-bik, an-ai- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

anaerobic

/ ˌænɛəˈrəʊbɪk /

(of an organism or process) requiring the absence of or not dependent on the presence of oxygen
of or relating to anaerobes

anaerobic

/ ăn′ə-rō′bĭk /

Occurring in the absence of oxygen or not requiring oxygen to live. Anaerobic bacteria produce energy from food molecules without the presence of oxygen.
Compare aerobic

anaerobic

A descriptive term for a process, such as fermentation , that can proceed only in the absence of oxygen , or a living thing that can survive only in the absence of oxygen. ( Compare aerobic .)

First recorded in 1880–85; anaerobe + -ic

In the fall of 2010, it bought an anaerobic digestion project then under construction in London, Ontario.

In anaerobic digesters, organic material is mixed on a huge pot with massive quantities of tiny bacteria.

The farm plans to utilize an anaerobic digester to gather waste such as left-over plant roots to generate power.

What had been coiled taut in anaerobic tension in Rage and Yoga has unstacked and stretched out in the sun here.

The anaerobic conditions likewise favor the multiplication of intestinal bacteria, and also their fermentative activity.

Pour similar sets of plates in glucose formate gelatine and agar and incubate in Bulloch's anaerobic apparatus.

The enumeration of the anaerobic organisms (including the facultative anaerobes).

This prevents an extension of the injury and the establishment of a good field for the growth of anaerobic bacteria.

The second compartment is inhabited by anaerobic bacteria, or forms of microscopic life that work practically without air.

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