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/vˌɛntəlˈeɪʃən/ /vˌɛnəlˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Ventilation n.

The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air. "Insuring, for the laboring man, better ventilation."

The act of refrigerating, or cooling; refrigeration; as, ventilation of the blood. (Obs.)

The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain.

The act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure. "The ventilation of these points diffused them to the knowledge of the world."

The act of giving vent or expression. "Ventilation of his thoughts."

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Etymology of 'Ventilation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ventilation" Quotes from Famous Books

... of me then," she said, and Glory followed her, first down a dark passage, then through a dusty avenue between stacks of scenery, then across the open stage, up a flight of stairs, and into a room of moderate size which had no window and no ventilation and contained three cheval glasses, a couch, four cane-bottom chairs, three small toilet tables with gas jets suspended over them, three large trunks, some boxes of cigarettes, and a number of empty champagne bottles. ...

— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine

... holding to the edge of the deck house with one hand, the motor boat boys approached the after hatchway. This, evidently for purposes of ventilation, had been ...

— The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless - The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise • H. Irving Hancock

... anxious to conform to rules. On going to the door I found, to my inexpressible disgust, that I might easily have closed it in the way I had seen the other door closed, by simply pulling a sliding panel. There was ventilation enough without having the place open to prowling beasts of prey. I also found that if I had turned up the little stray bed I should have had warm ...

— A Crystal Age • W. H. Hudson

... Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever."—N. E. Quar. Jour. of Medicine and Surgery, April, 1843. Reprinted, with Additions. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1855.] Have we forgotten what is told in one of the books published under our own sanction, that a simple measure of ventilation, proposed by Dr. John Clark, had saved more than sixteen thousand children's lives in a single hospital? How long would it have taken small doses of calomel and rhubarb to save as many children? These may be useful in prudent hands, but how insignificant ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... path which they were capable of treading intelligently. In fairness to them, he had always sought out some topic in which they could take an equal part—something connected with the conduct of children, or the better ventilation of the new school-house and chapel. But these new-comers did not require him to select topics of conversation; they did not even wait for him to finish those which he himself introduced. They flitted from one end of the garden to the other with the eagerness of two midshipmen ...

— The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis

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