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ejective
[ ih-jek-tiv ]
adjective
- serving to eject.
- Phonetics. (of a voiceless stop, affricate, or fricative) produced with air compressed above the closed glottis.
noun
- Phonetics. an ejective stop, affricate, or fricative.
ejective
/ ɪˈɛɪ /
adjective
- relating to or causing ejection
- phonetics (of a plosive or fricative consonant, as in some African languages) pronounced with a glottal stop
noun
- phonetics an ejective consonant
Derived Forms
- ˈپ, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- ·t· adverb
- ԴDze·t adjective
- ܲe·t adjective
Example Sentences
Török, T. & Kliem, B. Confined and ejective eruptions of kink-unstable flux ropes.
They can be ejective, causing coronal mass ejections, or confined.
They find that a multilayer magnetic 'cage' containing a twisted flux rope controls the evolution of the eruption, which can be ejective depending on the strength of the cage.
Kiowa is unique, among other traits, for its ejective sounds and tone system, in which “the pitch of the sound can be as distinctive as two distinct sounds,” McKenzie explains.
“We hypothesize that ejective sounds may help to mitigate rates of water vapor loss through exhaled air,” Professor Everett wrote in his paper.
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