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Crackling vs Crepitation - What's the difference?

crackling | crepitation |

As nouns the difference between crackling and crepitation

is that crackling is fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens while crepitation is the act of crepitating or crackling.

As a verb crackling

is present participle of lang=en.

crackling

English

Noun

  • (cookery) Fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens.
  • * Lamb
    • For the first time in his life he tasted crackling .
  • The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
    • the bangs and cracklings of fireworks

    Verb

    (head)

    • crepitation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of crepitating or crackling.
  • * 1923 ,
    • Silence again, save for the crepitation of the flames, the fall of an ember, the murmur of the current.
  • 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.
  • A crepitant rale.

    • Related terms

    * crepitate * crepitant