expiration

Borrowed from Middle French expiration, from Latin exspīrātiōnem, accusative singular of exspīrātiō.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛk.spəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

expiration (countable and uncountable, plural expirations)

1. The act of expiring.
2. The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth

   respiration consists of inspiration and expiration

3. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
4. (euphemistic) The last emission of breath; death.
5. A cessation, extinction, ending
6. That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

In most senses, mainly US; UK equivalent is expiry.

• (breathing out): exhalation
• (cessation): termination, end

• (breathing out): inspiration, inhalation

• expiration date

• expiry
• expire

From Middle French expiration, borrowed from Latin exspīrātiōnem, accusative singular of exspīrātiō.

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expiration f (plural expirations)

1. expiration (act of expiring)
2. expiration (act of breathing out)
3. expiration (end)

• expirer

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