COMBUSTION
\kəmbˈʌst͡ʃən], \kəmbˈʌstʃən], \k_ə_m_b_ˈʌ_s_tʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of COMBUSTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a state of violent disturbance and excitement; "combustion grew until revolt was unavoidable"
By Princeton University
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a state of violent disturbance and excitement; "combustion grew until revolt was unavoidable"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.
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Violent agitation; confusion; tumult.
By Oddity Software
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The act of burning; the state of being burnt; the union of substance with oxygen, etc., producing light and heat.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A burning; the action of fire on bodies capable of being burnt; the chemical combination of two or more bodies generally producing heat, and sometimes both heat and light.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Intense chemical change, attended by the development of heat and light and, sometimes, of flame.
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A chemical operation in which the carbon and hydrogen content of a substance is determined. It consists of oxidyzing the substance, with air or oxygen, to carbon dioxid and water, each of which is absorbed in specially constructed tubes. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. The action of fire on inflammable substances; —great fire; conflagration; the chemical process by which light and heat are emitted by contact, friction, &c.
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Conflagration, burning, consumption by fire ; tumult, hurry, hubbub.
By Thomas Sheridan
