ignition

1 the process of initiating combustion

2 the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine [syn: ignition system]

3 the act of setting on fire or catching fire [syn: firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]

English

Noun

1. The act of igniting
2. The initiation of combustion

Translations

• Finnish: sytytys (1), syttyminen (2)
• German: Zündung
• Hungarian: gyújtás

Ignition occurs when the heat produced by a reaction becomes sufficient to sustain a chemical reaction. The sudden change from a cold gas to a hot plasma in a plasma source is also called ignition.

See also: Making fire

Other uses of ignition include:

• in chemistry, it refers to heating a material to the point that it spontaneously combusts, or until it ceases to lose mass.
• in nuclear fusion, it refers to the conditions under which a plasma can be maintained by fusion reactions without external energy input.
• in semiconductor processing, ignition is the process of starting up a plasma generator. In DC plasma systems, this involves a transition from voltaic arcing to sustained and delocalized plasma generation.
• an ignition system is a method for activating and controlling the combustion of fuel in an internal combustion engine, often through the use of a key

Ignition may also refer to:

• Ignition (song), a hip hop song by artist R. Kelly
• Ignition, Portable Sounds, a christian rock/hip hop song by tobyMac
• Ignition (Trivium song), a song by American metal band Trivium
• Ignition (album), an album by the punk rock band The Offspring
• Ignition (computer game), a top-down racing game for PC published in 1997
• Ignition (event), a Burning Man regional event held in Montreal, Quebec
• Ignition (film), a 2001 film
• Ignition Entertainment, a computer video games company founded in 2002

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