exhalable

English

Etymology

exhale +‎ -able

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛksˈ(h)eɪləbəl/

Adjective

exhalable (comparative more exhalable, superlative most exhalable)

1. Capable of being exhaled or evaporated.
   • 1675, Robert Boyle, On the Mechanical Production of Electricity:

     the great rapidity , with which the wheels that serve to cut and polish diamonds must be moved , excites a great degree of heat in the stone ; whereby , perhaps , it loses its exhalable matter so plentifully

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exhalable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)