respiration
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹɛspɪˈɹeɪʃən/
respiration
- The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
- An act of breathing; a breath.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 76:
- Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 76:
- 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.
- French: respiration
- German: Atmung
- Italian: respirazione
- Portuguese: respiração
- Russian: дыха́ние
- Spanish: respiración
- German: Veratmung
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