See Also: combustion air(medicine)
combustion(dictionary)
combustion(dictionary)
Combustion(medicine)
Spontaneous combustion(medicine)
spontaneous combustion(dictionary)
combustion chamber(dictionary)
water of combustion(medicine)
slow combustion(medicine)
heat of combustion(medicine)

Immediate family (finance) and combustion (iou)


Immediate family (finance)


Term used in the NASD rules of fair practice to refer to one's parents, brothers, sisters, children, relatives supported financially, father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law.





combustion (iou)



combustion noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or late Latin combustio(n-), from combust-, pa. ppl stem of comburere burn up.]
Consumption or destruction by fire. LME.
Chemistry. Chemical change, spec. oxidation, marked by the production of heat and light. Also, a process of slow oxidation not accompanied by light, as in the animal body, in the decomposition of organic matter, etc. LME.
internal-combustion engine: see INTERNAL adjective. spontaneous combustion: see SPONTANEOUS adjective 3.
Medicine. A burn; inflammation. LME-M17.
Astrology. Obscuration by proximity to the sun (see COMBUST adjective 2). LME-M18.
fig. Violent excitement or commotion. Now rare. L16.
Malcolm X This is the situation which permitted Negro combustion to slowly build up to the revolution-point.
Comb.: combustion chamber a space in which combustion takes place, as of gases in a boiler-furnace or fuel in an internal-combustion engine; combustion-tube a heat-resistant tube in which organic compounds are burnt (used in quantitative analysis).
combustious adjective combustible; marked by combustion; fig. raging, turbulent: L16-E19.