combustion

Noun

Meaning

The state of burning.

The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.

Violent agitation; confusion; tumult.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

burning fire flaming burn oxidation flame ignition blaze incineration cremation conflagration tinder thermally pyre inferno
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Antonyms

order serenity confidence ease quiet happiness
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Hypernyms

oxidation tumult uproar oxidization garboil oxidisation

Hyponyms

fire flaming firing lighting flame ignition

Related terms

combustible combustive combustor

Phrases with the word

internal combustion piston engine chemical combustion combustion engine driven compression ignition internal combustion engine compression-ignition internal combustion piston diesel combustion engine

Examples

It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion. William Crookes

The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed. Nick Hornby

If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication. Julius Sumner Miller

If our Bodily Life is a burning, our Spiritual Life is a being burnt, a Combustion (or, is precisely the inverse the case?); Death, therefore, perhaps a Change of Capacity. Novalis

While in Campania the burning of the earth makes ashes, in Tuscany the combustion of the stone makes carbuncular sand. Both are excellent in walls but one is better to use for buildings on land, the other for piers under salt water. Vitruvius

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in. Rick Riordan

Close letter words and terms

combustible stone combustibleness combustibly combustion adaptability combustion aptitude combustion artist