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形容詞

exhalative (comparative more exhalative, superlative most exhalative)

1. Pertaining to the process of exhaling.
   • 1976, Mario von Cranach, Methods of inference from animal to human behaviour, page 186:

     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.

   • 2002, Derek Wright, Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, page 116:

     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 breathless.

   • 2012, Christopher Alan Anderson, The (Two) Telepathic Forces of the Universe:

     Does inhalation needs to get in touch with its exhalative side and exhalation with its inhalative side?

2. (geology) Pertaining to or resulting from a process that expels matter, such as the eruption of a volcano or a hot-water vent.
   • 1987, Rafael Rodríguez-Clemente, ‎Yves Tardy, Geochemistry and Mineral Formation in the Earth Surface, page 316:

     Accordingly much trace elements in hydrothermal solutions will pass unaffected by scavenging of biogenic FeOOH in the inner exhalative zone.

   • 1988, G.V. Chilingarian, ‎K.H. Wolf, Diagenesis, I, page 54:

     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.

   • 2012, Manfred Schidlowski, ‎Stjepko Golubic, ‎Michael M. Kimberley, Early Organic Evolution:

     The exhalative model invokes the influence of regional fluid exhalation on surficial alteration.