ventilation
/ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The bodily process of breathing; the inhalation of air to provide oxygen, and the exhalation of spent air to remove carbon dioxide.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?"
- ""No, Mr. Malone, I will place no restriction upon your correspondence, since the ventilation of the facts is the object of your journey; but I demand that you shall give no particulars as to your exact destination, and that nothing be actually published until your return.""
- "This toxin impairs ventilation by causing inflammation in the bronchioles."
- "It is time to try to wean this patient from ventilation."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French ventilation, from Old French ventilacion, from Late Latin ventilatio, from Latin ventilo. Morphologically ventilate + -ion.