Dictionary Entry
respiration
respiration is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath.
- 2noun
Relief from toil or suffering: rest.
- 3noun
Interval; intermission.
- 4noun
The act of resping or breathing; the act of taking in and giving out air; the aggregate of those processes bu which oxygen is introduced into the system, and carbon dioxide, or carbonic acid, removed.
- 5noun
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
- 6noun
the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
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- 7noun
a single complete act of breathing in and out
"thirty respirations per minute"
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