breather
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɹiː.ðə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -iːðə(r)
Noun
breather (plural breathers)
- Something or someone that breathes.
- A short break; a rest or respite.
- After a short breather she was ready to continue up the hill.
- (physics) A spatially localized, time-periodic excitation in a one-dimensional lattice.
- (colloquial, dated) That which puts one out of breath, such as violent exercise.
- (mechanics) An air inlet path to the crankcase
Translations
something that breathes
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short break
physics: kind of excitation
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