Usually means: Reaction where product accelerates its formation.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word autocatalysis:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. autocatalysis: Merriam-Webster
  2. autocatalysis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. autocatalysis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. autocatalysis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. autocatalysis: Vocabulary.com
  6. autocatalysis: Wordnik
  7. autocatalysis: Wiktionary
  8. autocatalysis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. autocatalysis: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. autocatalysis: Dictionary.com
  11. Autocatalysis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. autocatalysis: Rhymezone
  13. autocatalysis: FreeDictionary.org
  14. autocatalysis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. autocatalysis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. autocatalysis: Merriam-Webster

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Autocatalysis: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. autocatalysis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. autocatalysis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. autocatalysis: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (autocatalysis)

▸ noun:  (chemistry) catalysis of a reaction by one of its products

Similar:
autocatalyst, autoactivation, autoligation, catalysate, autohydrolysis, nanocatalysis, biocatalysis, autooxidation, autolysate, autophosphorylation, more...

Opposite:
heterocatalysis, inhibition, deactivation

Types:
positive feedback, runaway reaction, more...

Adjectives:
asymmetric, cubic, specific, quadratic, negative, such, collective, local, stereospecific, mutable, subsequent

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Similar:
autocatalyst, autoactivation, autoligation, catalysate, autohydrolysis, nanocatalysis, biocatalysis, autooxidation, autolysate, autophosphorylation, more...

Opposite:
heterocatalysis, inhibition, deactivation

Types:
positive feedback, runaway reaction, more...

Adjectives:
asymmetric, cubic, specific, quadratic, negative, such, collective, local, stereospecific, mutable, subsequent



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