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crepitation

noun

Definitions

  1. The act of crepitating or crackling.

    • When she returned the room was silent again, save for the faint crepitation of his chair and the occasional clink of a bottle.
    • Silence again, save for the crepitation of the flames, the fall of an ember, the murmur of the current.

  2. A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a…

    A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.

  3. A crepitant rale.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crepitation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA