FERMENTATION, may be defined a sensible internal motion of the constituent particles of a moist, fluid, mixt or compound body; by the continuance of which motion, these particles are gradually removed from their former situation or combination, and again, after some visible separation is made, joined together in a different order and arrangement. See CHEMISTRY.
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FERMO, a port-town of Italy, situated on the gulf of Venice, about thirty miles south of Ancona. It is an archbishop's see.