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  2. Air (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Airoran language, an Indonesian language with ISO 639-3 code AIR; Applied Innovative Research, a scientific journal; Compressed air, the air kept under a pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure; Another word for ambience (character, mood, etc.).

  3. Airstream mechanism - Wikipedia

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    Most other languages utilize at most two airstream mechanisms. In interjections , the other two mechanisms may be employed. For example, in countries as diverse as Sweden, Turkey, and Togo, a pulmonic ingressive ("gasped" or "inhaled") vowel is used for back-channeling or to express agreement, and in France a lingual egressive (a "spurt") is ...

  4. Air (classical element) - Wikipedia

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    In ancient Greek medicine, each of the four humours became associated with an element. Blood was the humor identified with air, since both were hot and wet. Other things associated with air and blood in ancient and medieval medicine included the season of spring, since it increased the qualities of heat and moisture; the sanguine temperament (of a person dominated by the blood humour ...

  5. Ingressive sound - Wikipedia

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    The sound is almost guttural and the aspirant is inhaled, not exhaled, air. Thus, for an English-speaker exhaling the response, the exhaled sound is not understood by native Samar-speakers. The American English trouble expression "uh-oh" does not approximate it. Eastern, Western, and Northern Samar have different accents in the same dialect.

  6. Implosive consonant - Wikipedia

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    In languages whose implosives are particularly salient, that may result in air rushing into the mouth before it flows out again with the next vowel. To take in air sharply in that way is to implode a sound. [3] However, probably more typically, there is no movement of air at all, which contrasts with the burst of the pulmonary plosives.

  7. Ejective consonant - Wikipedia

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    In producing an ejective, the stylohyoid muscle and digastric muscle contract, causing the hyoid bone and the connected glottis to rise, and the forward articulation (at the velum in the case of [kʼ]) is held, raising air pressure greatly in the mouth so when the oral articulators separate, there is a dramatic burst of air. [1]

  8. Egressive sound - Wikipedia

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    With the velum closed, the speaker forces air out of the mouth using either the tongue or cheeks, as in the French expression of dismissal. While not known to be used for normal vocabulary in any human language, [ 2 ] apart from the extinct Australian ritual language Damin , a variation of this airstream mechanism is known to musicians as part ...

  9. Aviation English - Wikipedia

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    Aviation English is the de facto international language of civil aviation.With the expansion of air travel in the 20th century, there were safety concerns about the ability of pilots and air traffic controllers to communicate.