crackle

English

Etymology

From Middle English crakelen, equivalent to crack +‎ -le (frequentative suffix). The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ækəl

Noun

crackle (plural crackles)

1. A fizzing, popping sound.
2. (pottery) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
3. (physics) The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.

Derived terms

• crackleware

Translations

a fizzing, popping sound

• Bulgarian: пращене n (praštene), пукане (pukane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 劈里啪啦的響聲／劈里啪啦的响声, 劈里啪啦的响声 (pīlǐ pālā de xiǎngshēng)

• Finnish: rasahdus (fi), risahdus (fi)
• French: crépitement (fr) m
• German: Knistern n
• Icelandic: snark n
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• Italian: crepitio (it), scoppiettio (it)
• Maori: pakepakē
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sprak n, spraking m or f

• Portuguese: estalido (pt) m, estalo (pt) m
• Russian: треск (ru) m (tresk)
• Spanish: crujido (es) m, chisporroteo (es) m

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make a fizzing, popping sound.

   a crackling fire

   • Dryden

     the unknown ice that crackles underneath them

Translations

make a fizzing sound

• Bulgarian: пращя (bg) (praštja), пукам (bg) (pukam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發出爆裂聲／发出爆裂声, 发出爆裂声 (fāchū bàolièshēng), 劈啪作响 (pīpā zuòxiǎng)

• Dutch: kraken (nl)
• Finnish: rasahtaa, risahtaa (single), ratista, ritistä (continuous)
• French: crépiter (fr)
• German: knistern (de)
• Icelandic: snarka
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• Italian: crepitare
• Maori: ngatete, pāhūhū, pākēkē
• Norman: cratchi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sprake

• Portuguese: estalar (pt), crepitar (pt)
• Russian: треща́ть (ru) (treščátʹ)
• Spanish: crepitar (es)

Derived terms

• crackling

Anagrams

• cackler, clacker