1. ejective - Noun
2. ejective - Adjective
ejective (not comparable)
Serving to eject, or characterised by ejection.
ejective (plural ejectives)
(phonetics) A nonpulmonic consonant formed by squeezing air trapped between the glottis and an articulator further forward, and releasing it suddenly.
Ejective processes, which expel cold gas from galaxies, may explain how more massive galaxies are quenched. citation One ejective mechanism is caused by supermassive black holes found in the centers of galaxies. Source: Internet
Some languages have stops made with other mechanisms as well: ejective stops ( glottalic egressive ), implosive stops ( glottalic ingressive ), or click consonants ( lingual ingressive ). Source: Internet
Xoo dialect of Taa found several new manners: creaky voiced (the voiced equivalent of glottalized oral), breathy-voiced nasal, prenasalized ɡlottalized (the voiced equivalent of glottalized), and a (pre)voiced ejective. Source: Internet
The change from ejective to plain consonants in Proto-Afroasiatic is apparently regular in grammatical words (Kaiser and Shevoroshkin 1988; see also */tV/ instead of */tʼV/ above). Source: Internet
With ejective clicks, for example, Miller finds that although the ejective release follows the click release, it is the rear closure of the click that is ejective, not an independently articulated consonant. Source: Internet