Usually means: Positively charged ion, loses electrons.
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  1. cation: Merriam-Webster
  2. cation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cation, cation: Wordnik
  7. cation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cation: Wiktionary
  9. cation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cation: Dictionary.com
  12. Cation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cation: Rhymezone
  16. Cation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. cation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. cation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

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  1. cation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. cation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cation: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Cation: MedFriendly Glossary
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  6. cation: Medical dictionary
  7. Cation: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  4. Cation: Biology dictionary
  5. Cation: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  6. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  7. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  8. Cation: Extragalactic Astronomy
  9. Cation: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --
  10. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Cation: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. CATION: Power Engineering

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noun:  (physical chemistry) A positively charged ion: one that would be attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.

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