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Combustion(medicine)
combustion air(medicine)
combustion(dictionary)
spontaneous combustion(dictionary)
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water of combustion(medicine)
slow combustion(medicine)
heat of combustion(medicine)
combustion reaction(medicine)

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.