Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ebullition

Ebullition , noun

[French ébullition, Latin ebullitio, from ebullire. See Ebullient.]

1.
A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.
2.
Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali.
3.
A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.