spaghettification

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• Received-Pronunciation: /spəˌɡɛtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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• General-American: /spəˌɡɛtəfəˈkeɪʃən/
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• General-American: [-ɾɪ-]
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• General-American: [-fɪ-]
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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From spaghetti + -ification (suffix meaning ‘the process of becoming’ forming nouns), alluding to the appearance of a strand of spaghetti.

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Basque: espagetizazio — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Belarusian: спагеціфікацыя (spahjecifikacyja) — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Bulgarian: спагетификация (spagetifikacija) — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Bulgarian: спагетен ефект (spageten efekt) — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Catalan: espaguetització — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Catalan: efecte agulla — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Chinese Mandarin: 麵條化 /面条化 — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Chinese Mandarin: 麪條化 /面条化 (miàntiáohuà) — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Dutch: spaghettificatie — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Finnish: spagetoituminen — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• French: spaghettification — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• German: Spaghettifizierung — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• German: Spaghettisierung — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• German: Spaghetti-Effekt — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Greek: μακαρονοποίηση (makaronopoíisi) — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Hebrew: ספגטיפיקציה — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Italian: spaghettificazione — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Japanese: スパゲッティ化現象 (supagettikagenshō) — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Korean: 국수효과 (guksuhyogwa) — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Norwegian Bokmål: spagettifisering — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Polish: spaghettifikacja — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Polish: spaghettizacja — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Polish: spagetyzacja — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Polish: efektem makaronu — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Portuguese: esparguetificação — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Portuguese: espaguetificação — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Russian: спагеттификация (spagettifikacija) — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Slovak: špagetizácia — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Spanish: espaguetización — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Swedish: spaghettifikation — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Swedish: nudeleffekten — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Ukrainian: спагетіфікація (spahetifikacija) — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes
• Ukrainian: ефектом локшини (efektom lokšyny) — gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes