Dictionary

crepitation en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
   • Silence again, save for the crepitation of the flames, the fall of an ember, the murmur of the current. 1923, George Allan England, The Thing from—"Outside":
2. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) A crepitant rale.

Forms

Relateds

crepitus · crepitate · crepitant

Translations (3)

id krepitasi (a crackling noise) · mi toētanga (a crackling noise) · fr crépitation (a crackling noise)