different between jactation vs lactation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

jactation (plural jactations)

1. A tossing or shaking of the body; physical agitation, especially while asleep or confined to bed by illness; jactitation.
2. The action of throwing.
   • 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)

     The projicient hath the stone in his hand, and with force and violence throws his arm, with which jactation the stone doth not move so much as the circumambient Air.

3. Boasting; bragging; showing off.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “jactation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

References

• jactation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lact?ti?, lact?ti?nis. Equivalent to lactate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /læk?te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

lactation (countable and uncountable, plural lactations)

1. The secretion of milk from the mammary gland of a female mammal.
2. The process of providing the milk to the young; breastfeeding.
3. The period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young; lactation period.

Derived terms

• lactational
• lactation period

Related terms

• lactate
• lactic
• lactose

Translations

Anagrams

• Alcottian