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Kindling is material for starting a fire. It is usually small timber (especially slender pieces split from the stumps of rosin-laden softwoods ("fatwood") which are quite flammable) or paper.

Kindling is also the act of creating a fire by using such materials. To set fire to; to catch fire.

In neuropsychology, kindling can be the process of triggering major epileptic seizures by repeated small electrical or chemical stimulation to the brain. It is most frequently studied in rats.

Kindling is also an unusual term for giving birth, as to kittens or rabbits. The litter may also be called a kindle. See List of animal names.

The Kindling is a campus humor magazine for North Central College.