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kindling

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
kindling/ˈkɪndlɪŋ/

▶noun

1 small sticks or twigs used for lighting fires.

2 (in neurology) a process by which an event in the brain is initiated and its recurrence made more likely.

'kindling' also found in these Oxford entries:

pyrites - tinderbox

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