Usually means: Sweating; body's cooling, waste removal.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word perspiration:

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perspiration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. perspiration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Perspiration: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  6. perspiration: Medical dictionary
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. Excessive Sweating (No longer online)
  9. Perspiration: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perspiration: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See perspirations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The action or process of perspiring.
noun:  (metonymically) Synonym of hard work.
noun:  Sweat (fluid).

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