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English
Etymology
From Old French combustion, from Latin combustio, from comburere (“to burn”), itself from the intensifying prefix com- + the root burere (a faulty sep. of amburere "to burn around", itself from ambi- + urere "to burn, singe"); equivalent to combust + -ion.
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Noun
combustion (countable and uncountable, plural combustions)
- (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
- A process whereby two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
- A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
- (dated or archaicizing, figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.
c. 1620s, Elizabeth Cary [misattributed to Henry Cary], The History Of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II. , London: A.G. and F. P., published 1680, page 32:From this ground, with a kind of loose scorn, he continues the French Correspondence, and secretly contriveth a continuance of the Scotish Rebellion. He omits no Act of Contempt against the antient Nobility, that they might in the sence of their disgrace be, or at least dayly threaten some new Combustion.
c. 1665, John Worthington, “The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-learned Joseph Mede”, in Life, The Author:There [were] great combustions and divisions among the heads of the university.
1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 44–49:Him the Almighty Power / Hurld headlong flaming from th' Etherial Skie / With hideous Ruine and combustion down / To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, / Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.
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the act or process of burning
- Arabic: اِحْتِرَاق m (iḥtirāq)
- Bulgarian: горене n (gorene)
- Catalan: combustió (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 燃燒/燃烧 (zh) (ránshāo)
- Czech: spalování (cs) n
- Danish: forbrænding c
- Dutch: verbranding (nl) f
- Finnish: palaminen (fi), palamisreaktio
- French: combustion (fr)
- German: Verbrennung (de) f
- Greek: καύση (el) f (káfsi), ανάφλεξη (el) f (anáflexi)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: égés (hu) (process), égetés (hu) (act)
- Ido: kombusto (io)
- Indonesian: pembakaran (id)
- Italian: combustione (it) f
- Japanese: 燃焼 (ja) (ねんしょう, nenshō)
- Korean: 연소(燃燒) (ko) (yeonso)
- Macedonian: согорување n (sogoruvanje), горење n (gorenje)
- Malay: pembakaran (ms)
- Malayalam: ജ്വലനം (ml) (jvalanaṁ)
- Maori: ngingihatanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forbrenning (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: forbrenning f
- Persian: سوختن (fa) (suxtan)
- Plautdietsch: Braunt n
- Polish: spalanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: combustão (pt) f, queima (pt) f
- Romanian: combustie (ro) f, ardere (ro) f
- Russian: горе́ние (ru) n (gorénije), сгора́ние (ru) n (sgoránije), возгора́ние (ru) n (vozgoránije) (process); сжига́ние (ru) n (sžigánije) (act)
- Sanskrit: ओष (sa) m (oṣa)
- Spanish: combustión (es) f, quemado (es) m
- Swedish: förbränning (sv) c
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similar process where two chemicals are combined
process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen
violent agitation, commotion
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French
Etymology
From Old French combustion, from Latin combustiōnem, from comburere (“to burn”), itself from the intensifying prefix com- + the root burere (a faulty sep. of amburere "to burn around", itself from ambi- + urere "to burn, singe").
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Noun
combustion f (plural combustions)
- combustion, burning, incineration
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