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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun combustion has 3 senses
- combustion(n = noun.process) burning - a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light; Array has particulars: deflagration, fire, flame, flaming, internal combustion
- combustion(n = noun.state) Array - a state of violent disturbance and excitement; "combustion grew until revolt was unavoidable" is a kind of garboil, tumult, tumultuousness, uproar
- combustion(n = noun.act) burning - the act of burning something; "the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance" is a kind of change of integrity
is a kind of oxidation, oxidisation, oxidization
Derived form verb combust5
has particulars: arson, fire-raising, incendiarism, firing, ignition, inflammation, kindling, lighting, incineration
Derived form verb combust1
CIDE DICTIONARY
combustion, n. [L. combustio: cf. F. combustion.].
- The state of burning. [1913 Webster]
- The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. [1913 Webster]"Combustion results in common cases from the mutual chemical action and reaction of the combustible and the oxygen of the atmosphere, whereby a new compound is formed." [1913 Webster]
- Violent agitation; confusion; tumult. [1913 Webster]"There [were] great combustions and divisions among the heads of the university." [1913 Webster]"But say from whence this new combustion springs." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
combustion, n.
1 burning; consumption by fire.
2 Chem. the development of light and heat from the chemical combination of a substance with oxygen.
1 burning; consumption by fire.
2 Chem. the development of light and heat from the chemical combination of a substance with oxygen.
Derivative
combustive adj.
Etymology
ME f. F combustion or LL combustio f. L comburere combust- burn up
THESAURUS
combustion
backfire, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, blaze, blazing, blistering, bonfire, branding, burning, burning ghat, calcination, campfire, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cheerful fire, cineration, concremation, conflagration, corposant, cozy fire, cracking, crackling fire, cremation, crematory, cupellation, death fire, deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, fen fire, fire, flame, flaming, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, forest fire, fox fire, funeral pyre, ignis fatuus, ignition, incineration, ingle, lambent flame, marshfire, open fire, oxidation, oxidization, parching, prairie fire, pyre, pyrolysis, raging fire, refining, scorching, scorification, sea of flames, searing, self-immolation, sheet of fire, signal beacon, singeing, smelting, smudge fire, suttee, the stake, thermogenesis, three-alarm fire, two-alarm fire, vesication, watch fire, wildfire, witch fireROGET THESAURUS
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Calefaction
N calefaction, increase of temperature, heating, calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction, melting, fusion, liquefaction, burning, ambustion, combustion, incension, accension, concremation, cremation, scorification, cautery, cauterization, ustulation, calcination, cracking, refining, incineration, cineration, carbonization, cupellation, ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration, deflagration, conflagration, empyrosis, incendiarism, arson, auto dafe, boiling, coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction, ebullioscope, geyser, distillation (vaporization), furnace, blanket, flannel, fur, wadding, clothing, still, refinery, fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower, match, incendiary, petroleuse, cauterizer, caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa, acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia, catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium, sunstroke, coup de soleil, insolation, pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china, earthenware, stoneware, pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker, cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot, slag, coke, carbon, charcoal, wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil, gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel), wax, paraffin, residue, tar, inflammability, combustibility, diathermancy, transcalency, conduction, convection, radiation, radiant heat, heat conductivity, conductivity, thermal expansion, coefficient of expansion, heated, molten, sodden, r_echauff_e, heating, adust, inflammable, combustible, diathermal, diathermanous, burnt, volcanic, radioactive.
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