Usually means: Rapid chemical reaction releasing heat.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. combustion: Merriam-Webster
  2. combustion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. combustion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. combustion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. combustion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Combustion, combustion: Wordnik
  7. combustion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. combustion: Wiktionary
  9. combustion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. combustion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. combustion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. combustion: Dictionary.com
  13. combustion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. combustion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Combustion (software), Combustion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Combustion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. combustion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. combustion: Rhymezone
  19. combustion, combustion (f), combustin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. combustion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. combustion: FreeDictionary.org
  22. combustion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. combustion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. combustion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. combustion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. combustion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. combustion: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Combustion: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  3. combustion: UNCChem Glossary

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

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Combustion: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. COMBUSTION: Power Engineering

(Note: See combustions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
noun:  A process whereby two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
noun:  A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
noun:  (dated or archaicizing, figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.

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