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DECREPITATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does decrepitation mean?
• DECREPITATION (noun)
The noun DECREPITATION has 1 sense:
1. the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated
Familiarity information: DECREPITATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("decrepitation" is a kind of...):
crackle; crackling; crepitation (the sharp sound of snapping noises)
Derivation:
decrepitate (to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops)
decrepitate (undergo decrepitation and crackle)
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