Spirant in a sentence as a noun

The definition for affricate made me feel real stupid again when I didn't understand almost every third word in the Google provided definition:>a phoneme which combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing the same place of articulation

Spirant definitions

noun

a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract

See also: fricative

adjective

of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

See also: fricative continuant sibilant strident