breathing-respiration: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is breathing? breathing is respiration

What is respiration?

  • The act or process of respiration.

    L’acte ou le processus de respiration.

  • A single breath.

    Un seul souffle.

  • The time required to take one's breath.

    Le temps nécessaire pour reprendre son souffle.

  • Either of two marks, the rough breathing ( ̔ ) and the smooth breathing ( ̓ ), used in Greek to indicate presence or absence of aspiration.

    L’une des deux marques, la respiration rugueuse ( ̔ ) et la respiration douce ( ̓ ), utilisées en grec pour indiquer la présence ou l’absence d’aspiration.

  • The presence or absence of aspiration indicated by either of these marks.

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