Usually means: Process of inhaling and exhaling air.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word respiration:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. respiration: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. respiration: Merriam-Webster
  3. respiration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. respiration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. respiration: Collins English Dictionary
  6. respiration: Vocabulary.com
  7. Respiration, respiration: Wordnik
  8. respiration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. respiration: Wiktionary
  10. respiration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. respiration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. respiration: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. respiration: Dictionary.com
  14. respiration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Respiration (physiology), Respiration (song), Respiration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Respiration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. respiration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. respiration: Rhymezone
  19. respiration, respiration (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. respiration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. respiration: FreeDictionary.org
  22. respiration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. respiration: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Respiration: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. respiration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. respiration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Respiration: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  5. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Respiration: Merck Manuals
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Respiration: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  10. respiration: Medical dictionary
  11. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  12. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)
  13. Respiration: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. respiration: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
noun:  An act of breathing; a breath.
noun:  Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
noun:  The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.

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