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Crackles

A fizzing, popping sound.

📖 Definitions of "Crackles"

noun
  1. 1

    A fizzing, popping sound.

  2. 2

    A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.

  3. 3

    The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.

verb
  1. 1

    To make a fizzing, popping sound.

    "a crackling fire"

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Crackles"

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crunchnounTo crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
crepitationnounA grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.
scranchverb(transitive, archaic) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to crunch.
fancynounThe imagination.
crepitateverbTo crackle, to make a crackling sound.
cracklewarenounArticles made with a crackle glaze.
scraunchverbAlternative form of scranch. [(transitive, archaic) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to crunch.]
crackle chinanounglazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
ralenoun(medicine, now chiefly in the plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.
cracklinessnounThe condition of being crackly
crepitusnoun(medicine) Grating, crackling or popping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints.
crepsnoun(medicine, colloquial) Crepitations.
cracklernounThat which crackles.
crepitancenounNonstandard spelling of crepitus. [(medicine) Grating, crackling or popping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints.]
crackletnounA little crack.
crackingnounThe production of a crack sound.
rashnoun(dermatology, medicine) An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus. Also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.
sibilant rhonchusnoun(medicine, dated) wheezing
cracknounA thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
rattlenounObject that rattles.

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