exhalation

What it means

1. countableuncountableThe act or process of exhaling; breathing out

   short exhalations of breath

   Synonyms: efflation, sigh

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

   exhalations from the earth or flowers

   1 more example

   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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt 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. countableuncountableA bright phenomenon; a meteor.

In a sentence

short exhalations of breath

Where it comes from

1. Latinexhālātiō
2. Englishexhalation

From Latin exhālātiō, from exhālō (“to breathe out, to exhale”), from hālō (“to breathe”). Equivalent to exhale + -ation.