different between exhalation vs exhalement

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

exhalation (countable and uncountable, plural exhalations)

1. The act or process of exhaling; breathing out

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

French

Pronunciation

Noun

exhalation f (plural exhalations)

1. exhalation

Related terms

• exhaler

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From exhale +? -ment.

Noun

exhalement (usually uncountable, plural exhalements)

1. (obsolete) Exhalation.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:

     Nor will polished Amber although it send forth a gross and corporal exhalement, be found a long time defective upon the exactest scales.