breather
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /bɹiː.ðə(ɹ)/
breather (plural breathers)
- Something or someone that breathes.
- A short break; a rest or respite.
- After a short breather she was ready to continue up the hill.
- (physics) A spatially localized, time-periodic excitation in a one-dimensional lattice.
- (colloquial, dated) That which puts one out of breath, such as violent exercise.
- (mechanics) An air inlet path to the crankcase
- (short break) hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
- German: Atmende
- Spanish: respirador
- French: pause
- German: Verschnaufpause, (colloquial) Atempause
- Spanish: respiro
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