Usually means: Removing salt from water process.
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  1. desalination: Merriam-Webster
  2. desalination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desalination: Collins English Dictionary
  4. desalination: Vocabulary.com
  5. Desalination, desalination: Wordnik
  6. desalination: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. desalination: Wiktionary
  8. desalination: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. desalination: Dictionary.com
  10. Desalination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. desalination: Rhymezone
  12. desalination: FreeDictionary.org
  13. desalination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. desalination: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. desalination: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desalination: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desalination: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DESALINATION: Power Engineering
  2. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  The process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water.

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