Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of airing or of exposing to the action of the air: as, the aëration of soil by plowing, harrowing, etc.
- noun The act or operation of mixing or saturating with a gas, as carbonic-acid gas or common air.
- noun In physiology, the arterialization of the venous blood by respiration in the higher animals, and by corresponding processes in the lower animals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Exposure to the free action of the air; airing
- noun (Physiol.) A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.
- noun The act or preparation of charging a liquid with carbon dioxide gas to make it effervescent.
- noun the act of charging a liquid with air or oxygen for the purpose of purification.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
process by whichair iscirculated through ormixed with a substance such assoil or aliquid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of exposing to air (so as to purify)
- noun the act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent
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Examples
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Seems it aids in aeration as well. nordist on 25 Jan 2010 at 6: 06 am #
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No significant aeration occurs when a wine is simply uncorked and left to sit in the open bottle.
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No significant aeration occurs when a wine is simply uncorked and left to sit in the open bottle.
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Mechanical treatment methods, such as aeration, are not typically used due to cost and complexity of operation [73].
Potential impacts of indirect mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic
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A third method of aeration which is the most efficient of all
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It doesn't work, minnows will die without aeration.
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It doesn't work, minnows will die without aeration.
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Hot days call for maximum foot aeration and these sustainably made slippers have got you covered (or not covered!)
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As a general rule of thumb, however, I would suggest leaving the door open for aeration purposes.
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The secret to composting, I was coming to see, and the reason for my family's embarrassing failure at it, was aeration.
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