crepitation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

crepitation (countable and uncountable, plural crepitations)

1. The act of crepitating or crackling.
   • 1923, George Allan England, The Thing from—"Outside"

     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 broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.
3. A crepitant rale.

Related terms

• crepitate
• crepitant

Translations

a crackling noise

• Maori: toētanga
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