ejective

[ih-jek-tiv]

adjective

1. serving to eject.

2. Phonetics.,  (of a voiceless stop, affricate, or fricative) produced with air compressed above the closed glottis.

noun

1. Phonetics.,  an ejective stop, affricate, or fricative.

ejective

/ ɪˈdʒɛktɪv /

adjective

1. relating to or causing ejection

2. phonetics (of a plosive or fricative consonant, as in some African languages) pronounced with a glottal stop

noun

1. phonetics an ejective consonant

Other Word Forms

• ejectively adverb
• nonejective adjective
• unejective adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of ejective¹

First recorded in 1650–60; eject + -ive

Example Sentences

Török, T. & Kliem, B. Confined and ejective eruptions of kink-unstable flux ropes.

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They can be ejective, causing coronal mass ejections, or confined.

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They find that a multilayer magnetic 'cage' containing a twisted flux rope controls the evolution of the eruption, which can be ejective depending on the strength of the cage.

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Kiowa is unique, among other traits, for its ejective sounds and tone system, in which “the pitch of the sound can be as distinctive as two distinct sounds,” McKenzie explains.

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“We hypothesize that ejective sounds may help to mitigate rates of water vapor loss through exhaled air,” Professor Everett wrote in his paper.

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