EXPIRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expiration mean? 

• EXPIRATION (noun)
  The noun EXPIRATION has 3 senses:

1. a coming to an end of a contract period

2. euphemistic expressions for death

3. the act of expelling air from the lungs

  Familiarity information: EXPIRATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPIRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coming to an end of a contract period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

expiration; expiry; termination

Context example:

the expiry of his driver's license

Hypernyms ("expiration" is a kind of...):

end; ending (the point in time at which something ends)

Derivation:

expire (lose validity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Euphemistic expressions for death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

departure; exit; expiration; going; loss; passing; release

Context example:

thousands mourned his passing

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:

The act of expelling air from the lungs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

breathing out; exhalation; expiration

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)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with errors in identification of expiration date.

(Medical Device Expiration Date Error, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with the expiration date or shelf life of a product.

(Medical Device Expiration Date Issue, Food and Drug Administration)

Pulmonary surfactant lines the lung epithelium and lowers surface tension to prevent collapse at end-expiration.

(Lung Surfactant, NCI Thesaurus)

An increase of the greatest rate of flow that can be achieved during forced expiration beginning with the lungs fully inflated.

(Increased Peak Expiratory Flowrate, NCI Thesaurus)

The air that moves out of the chest during expiration.

(Expired Air, NCI Thesaurus)

Check packages to be sure food hasn't reached its expiration date.

(Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per inspiration or expiration of breath.

(Milliliter per Breath, NCI Thesaurus)

PEF records the maximum flow that can be sustained for 10 milliseconds on forced expiration starting from full inflation of the lungs.

(Peak Expiratory Flow, NCI Thesaurus)

We accordingly determined to commence our journey towards the north at the expiration of another month.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The process of producing vocal sounds by vibration of the vocal cords during an expiration of air.

(Phonation, NCI Thesaurus)