respiration
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English respiracioun, borrowed from Latin respīrātiō, respīrātiōnem.
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Noun[edit]
respiration (countable and uncountable, plural respirations)
- The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
- 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization[1], Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2:
- In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; […]
- 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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Translations[edit]
breathing
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exchange of gases
process of biological energy extraction
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin respirātiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
respiration f (plural respirations)
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Further reading[edit]
- “respiration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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