Definition of "crepitation"

crepitation

noun
countable and uncountable, plural crepitations
1. The act of crepitating or crackling.
  Quotations
  When she returned the room was silent again, save for the faint crepitation of his chair and the occasional clink of a bottle.
  1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers
  Silence again, save for the crepitation of the flames, the fall of an ember, the murmur of the current.
  1923, George Allan England, The Thing from—"Outside"
2. A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.
3. A crepitant rale.