Dictionary
neu•tral•i•za•tion
Pronunciation: (nOO"tru-lu-zā'shun, nyOO"-), [key]—
n.
1. the act, process, or an instance of neutralizing.
2. the quality or condition of being neutralized.
3. Ling.the loss of a distinctive feature of one of a pair of phonemes that are otherwise differentiated on the basis of that feature, as the loss of voice as a distinctive feature between the
-t- and
-d- of
latter and
ladder.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.