'Combustion' definitions:
Definition of 'combustion'
(from WordNet)
noun
A process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light [syn: combustion, burning]
noun
A state of violent disturbance and excitement; "combustion grew until revolt was unavoidable"
noun
The act of burning something; "the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance" [syn: burning, combustion]
Definition of 'Combustion'
From: GCIDE
- Combustion \Com*bus"tion\ (?; 106), n. [L. combustio: cf. F. combustion.]
- 1. The state of burning. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Chem.) 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. --Ure. [1913 Webster]
- Supporter of combustion (Chem.), a gas, as oxygen, the combination of which with a combustible, as coal, constitutes combustion. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Violent agitation; confusion; tumult. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- There [were] great combustions and divisions among the heads of the university. --Mede. [1913 Webster]
- But say from whence this new combustion springs. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'combustion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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 fire
Words containing 'Combustion'
- Combust,
- Combustibility,
- Combustible,
- Combustibleness,
- combustive,
- Combustion chamber,
- Spontaneous combustion,
- Supporter of combustion,
- combustible material,
- internal combustion,
- Internal-combustion,
- Internal-combustion engine,
- external-combustion engine,
- noncombustible vs combustible incombustible,
- four-stroke internal-combustion engine