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Respiration may refer to:
- Respiration (physiology), the transport of oxygen to cells where cellular respiration takes place
- Cellular respiration, the process in which molecules are converted into usable energy
- Anaerobic respiration, cellular respiration without oxygen
- Aquatic respiration, the process of animals extracting oxygen from water
- Carbon respiration, a concept used in calculating carbon (as CO2) flux occurring in the atmosphere
- Ecosystem respiration, measure of gross carbon dioxide production by all organisms in an ecosystem
- Root respiration, exchange of gases between plant roots and the atmosphere
- Breathing, the physiological process that enables animals to exchange carbon dioxide, the primary product of cellular respiration, for fresh air.
- "Respiration" (song), a 1999 hip hop group single by Black Star