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crepitations

crepitations is the plural of crepitation.

Meaning of crepitation

Noun

crepitation (countable and uncountable, plural crepitations)

  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.1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC
  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.

Questions about crepitations

What is crepitations the plural of?
Crepitations is the plural of crepitation.

Words near crepitations in the dictionary

  1. crepitate
  2. crepitated
  3. crepitates
  4. crepitating
  5. crepitation
  6. crepitations
  7. crepitative
  8. crepitous
  9. crepitus
  10. creplach
  11. creplich

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