exhalation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

exhalation (countable and uncountable, plural exhalations)

1. The act or process of exhaling; breathing out

   short exhalations of breath

2. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam;

   exhalations from the earth or flowers

   • 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
• Irish: asanálú m
• 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

Noun

exhalation f (plural exhalations)

1. exhalation

Further reading

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