ventilation

Borrowed from Middle French ventilation, from Old French ventilacion, from Late Latin ventilatio, from Latin ventilo. Morphologically ventilate +‎ -ion.

ventilation (countable and uncountable, plural ventilations)

The replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh.
- 1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft:
  So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
The mechanical system used to circulate and replace air.
An exchange of views during a discussion.
The public exposure of an issue or topic.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  "No, Mr. Malone, I will place no restriction upon your correspondence, since the ventilation of the facts is the object of your journey; but I demand that you shall give no particulars as to your exact destination, and that nothing be actually published until your return."
The bodily process of breathing; the inhalation of air to provide oxygen, and the exhalation of spent air to remove carbon dioxide.
(medicine) The mechanical system used to assist breathing.

replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh

Arabic: تَهْوِيَة f (tahwiya)
Bulgarian: проветрение n (provetrenie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 通風 / 通风 (zh) (tōngfēng), 通氣 / 通气 (zh) (tōngqì)
Finnish: tuuletus (fi), ilmanvaihto (fi)
French: ventilation (fr) f, aération (fr) f
Georgian: ვენტილაცია (venṭilacia), განიავება (ganiaveba)
German: Lüftung (de) f
Greek: εξαερισμός (el) m (exaerismós), αερισμός (el) m (aerismós)
Irish: aeráil f, aerú m
Japanese: 通風 (ja) (つうふう, tsūfū), 換気 (ja) (かんき, kanki)
Korean: 통풍 (tongpung), 환기 (ko) (hwan'gi)
Latin: ventilatio f
Macedonian: проветру́вање n (provetrúvanje)
Romanian: aerisire (ro) f, ventilație (ro) f
Russian: вентиля́ция (ru) f (ventiljácija), прове́тривание (ru) n (provétrivanije), воздухообме́н (ru) m (vozduxoobmén) (exchange of air)
Spanish: ventilación (es) f
Swedish: luftväxling c, ventilation (sv) c
Ukrainian: вентиля́ція (ventyljácija)

mechanical system used to circulate and replace air

exchange of views during a discussion

breathing

Bulgarian: дишане (bg) n (dišane)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 換氣 / 换气 (zh) (huànqì), 呼吸 (zh) (hūxī)
Finnish: hengitys (fi)
French: respiration (fr) f, ventilation (fr)
Georgian: სუნთქვა (suntkva)
Greek: αναπνοή (el) f (anapnoḯ)
Italian: ventilazione (it)
Japanese: 換気 (ja) (かんき, kanki), 呼吸 (ja) (こきゅう, kokyū)
Macedonian: ди́шење n (díšenje)
Portuguese: ventilação (pt)
Russian: дыха́ние (ru) n (dyxánije), воздухообме́н (ru) m (vozduxoobmén) (exchange of air)
Spanish: ventilación (es) f

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