respiration
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English respiracioun, borrowed from Latin respīrātiō, respīrātiōnem.
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NounEdit
respiration (countable and uncountable, plural respirations)
- The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
- An act of breathing; a breath.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 76:
- Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.
- Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
- The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.
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TranslationsEdit
breathing
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exchange of gases
process of biological energy extraction
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See alsoEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin respirātiōnem.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
respiration f (plural respirations)
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Further readingEdit
- “respiration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.