exhalation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

exhalation ‎(plural exhalations)

1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
2. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.
   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter II, [1]

     For a week the party watched the flood, and each day it receded to a considerable extent. A thick deposit of mud was left behind, but though the sun shone out warmly no offensive exhalations arose.

3. A bright phenomenon; a meteor.

Translations

act or process of exhaling

• Arabic: زَفِير m ‎(zafīr)
• Bulgarian: издишване n ‎(izdišvane)
• Catalan: exhalació f
• Dutch: uitademing (nl) f

• Finnish: uloshengitys (fi)
• Galician: exhalación (gl) f
• Telugu: నిశ్వాసము (te) ‎(niśvāsamu)

that which is exhaled

• Bulgarian: дихание (bg) n ‎(dihanie), дъх (bg) m ‎(dǎh)

• Catalan: exhalació f
• Galician: exhalación (gl) f

meteor — see meteor

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Noun

exhalation f ‎(plural exhalations)

1. exhalation

External links

• “exhalation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).