-faction
短语n. 派别；内讧；小集团；纪实小说
释义与例句
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1.
The act of creating something, or (more broadly) any process involving the specified thing.
lith- (“stone”) + -i- + -faction → lithifaction (“the compaction and cementation of sediment into rock”)
aer- (“air”) + -i- + -faction → aerifaction (“aeration, hyperinflation of the lungs”)
词源
Borrowed from French -faction, from Latin -factiō. This is the ending that arises when forming action nouns using -tiō (equivalent to English -tion) from compound verbs ending in -faciō (“to make, to do”), which carry a causative meaning. For example, liqueō (“to be liquid”) + faciō > liquefaciō (“to make (something) liquid”) > liquefactiō > English liquefaction. The suffix was later applied to other Latin stems where no Latin verb in -faciō existed (e.g. lubrifaction) and, eventually, even more freely (but see usage notes). Compare -ification and -ication.
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