, in Physics, a brisk intestine motion, excited among the particles of a body. Thus fire agitates the subtlest particles of bodies. Fermentations, and effervescences, are produced by a brisk agitation of the particles of the fermenting body.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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