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crepitation

NOUN
  1. the sharp sound of snapping noises

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  • When she returned the room was silent again, save for the faint crepitation of his chair and the occasional clink of a bottle. The Invisible Man
  • In addition, it also resists compaction and promotes decrepitation of the alloy.
  • The thump of a stapler, the snick of a ballpoint, the rattle of paper, the bass crepitation of the mail cart against the carpet.
  • 3 The medical term for joint popping is "crepitation," which also is a term for farting. Oh, snap! Crackle and pop
  • The crepitation is the result of the action of a powerful magnetic pole upon luminous electric jets in its immediate neighborhood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
  • `Good, good, daughter," came the words, a whisper, a mere crepitation from behind those dusty curtains. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • The stir of that anticipation was in the air, the warm earth was parting above the swelling seeds, and all the pine-woods were full of the minute crepitation of opening bud scales. Love and Mr Lewisham
  • The gunpowder without the mephitis being fired, the combustion was soon communicated to the other extremity of the train, and to the phosphorus, which took fire with decrepitation, burnt rapidly, with a bright flame, slightly coloured with veilow and green, and left on the wood a black mark, as of charcoal. A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan
  • Everywhere on earth that day, in the ears of every one who breathed, there had been the same humming in the air, the same rush of green vapors, the crepitation, the streaming down of shooting stars. In the Days of the Comet
  • They had arrived at the straw pallet on which Philip lay, so still and mute that Cadfael's heart misdoubted for a moment, and then caught gratefully at the sudden shudder and crepitation of breath. A River So Long
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