respiration

Other forms of respiration

plural

respirations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about respiration

What does respiration mean?

respiration means "the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in respiration?

respiration has 4 syllables: res-pi-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˌɹɛspɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for respiration?

Close synonyms include internal respiration, cellular respiration, breathing, external respiration, ventilation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is respiration a common word?

respiration is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with respiration?

133 words rhyme with respiration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.