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EXPIRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of expelling air from the lungs
Synonyms:
breathing out; exhalation; expiration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("expiration" is a kind of...):
breath (the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expiration"):
huffing; puffing; snorting (an act of forcible exhalation)
blow; puff (forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth)
wind (breath)
Holonyms ("expiration" is a part of...):
breathing; external respiration; respiration; ventilation (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)
Derivation:
expire (expel air)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Euphemistic expressions for death
Example:
thousands mourned his passing
Synonyms:
departure; exit; expiration; going; loss; passing; release
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("expiration" is a kind of...):
death; decease; expiry (the event of dying or departure from life)
Domain usage:
euphemism (an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh)
Derivation:
expire (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A coming to an end of a contract period
Example:
the expiry of his driver's license
Synonyms:
expiration; expiry; termination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("expiration" is a kind of...):
end; ending (the point in time at which something ends)
Derivation:
expire (lose validity)
Context examples:
Expiration dates are generally limited to no more than 3 years after production, but longer stability periods are allowed for some very stable materials.
(Pharmaceutical Product Expiration Date, NCI Thesaurus)
The maximal flow achieved during the maximally forced expiration initiated at maximum inhalation.
(Peak Expiratory Flow, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The maximal flow achieved during the maximally forced expiration initiated at maximum inhalation as a proportion of the predicted normal value.
(Percent Predicted Peak Expiratory Flow, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The production identifier is the expiration date.
(Expiration Date Production Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)
The device is managed by expiration date; the date, which appears on the label, by which the device must or should be used.
(Expiration Date Production Identifier, Food and Drug Administration)
A filter designed to remove something from the expiration stream of a ventilator.
(Exhalation Filter Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
I determined to make no resolutions until the expiration of those three months, but to try.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It lists many things about each drug, including the drug name, lot number, expiration date, the amount of drug received, used, returned, or thrown away, and the amount left.
(DAR, NCI Dictionary)
A decrease of the greatest rate of flow that can be achieved during forced expiration beginning with the lungs fully inflated.
(Decreased Peak Expiratory Flowrate, Food and Drug Administration)
Johnson’s breath, suddenly expelled, shot from his mouth and as suddenly checked, with the forced, audible expiration of a man wielding an axe.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
