exhalative

Adjective

exhalative (comparative more exhalative, superlative most exhalative)

1. Pertaining to the process of exhaling.
   • What little research has been done on humans in this respect does give some indication that positive and negative affective expressions are associated with differences in the inhalative and exhalative components of respiration.1976, Mario von Cranach, Methods of inference from animal to human behaviour, page 186
   • On the other hand, by an inverse proportion, Deeriye's shortage of breath, his failure of exhalative power in the physical world, also connotes a corresponding enhanced inhalation of spiritual power— of God's breath — in his visionary realm, an intake of divine energy that leaves him physically...2002, Derek Wright, Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, page 116
2. Pertaining to or resulting from a process that expels matter, such as the eruption of a volcano or a hot-water vent.
   • Accordingly much trace elements in hydrothermal solutions will pass unaffected by scavenging of biogenic FeOOH in the inner exhalative zone.1987, Rafael Rodríguez-Clemente, Yves Tardy, Geochemistry and Mineral Formation in the Earth Surface, page 316
   • Of the five proposed types of Kuroko ore deposits, three form at the surface: type III near the exhalative vent, type IV down-basin from the vent in a volcanic rock-dominated locality, and type V in the deeper part of the basin in a sediment-dominated environment.1988, G.V. Chilingarian, K.H. Wolf, Diagenesis, I, page 54