Crossword clues for expiration
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expiration \Ex`pi*ra"tion\, n. [L. expiratio,exspiratio: cf. F. expiration. See Expire.]
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The act of expiring; as:
(Physiol.) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration.
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Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth.
--Bacon. The last emission of breath; death. ``The groan of expiration.''
--Rambler.-
A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.
Before the expiration of thy time.
--Shak.
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That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
The aspirate ``he,'' which is . . . a gentle expiration.
--G. Sharp.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "vapor, breath," from Middle French expiration, from Latin expirationem/exspirationem (nominative expiratio/exspiratio) "a breathing out, exhalation," noun of action from past participle stem of expirare/exspirare "breathe out; breathe one's last" (see expire). Meaning "termination, end, close" is from 1560s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of expire. 2 The act or process of breathe out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; – opposed to inspiration. 3 Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. 4 The last emission of breath; death. 5 A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end. 6 That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
WordNet
n. a coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his driver's license" [syn: termination, expiry]
euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit, going, release]
the act of expelling air from the lungs [syn: exhalation, breathing out]
Wikipedia
Expiration (2004) is an independent feature film written, directed and starring Gavin Heffernan. It was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Best Film at the Canadian Filmmakers' Festival.
In finance, the expiration date of an option contract is the last date on which the holder of the option may exercise it according to its terms. In the case of options with "automatic exercise" the net value of the option is credited to the long and debited to the short position holders.
Typically, exchange-traded option contracts expire according to a pre-determined calendar. For instance, for U.S. exchange-listed equity stock option contracts, the expiration date is always the Saturday that follows the third Friday of the month, unless that Friday is a market holiday, in which case the expiration is on Thursday right before that Friday.
The clearing firm may automatically exercise by exception any option that is in the money at expiration to preserve its value for the holder of the option and at the same time, benefit from the commission fees collected from the account holder. However the holder or the holder's broker may request that the options are not exercised automatically. Out of the money options are not exercised automatically.
Upon expiration any margin charged held by the clearing firm of the holder or writer of the option is released back to the free balance of the trader's account.
Expiration may refer to:
- Death
- Exhalation of breath, breathing out
- Expiration (options), the legal termination of an option to take an action
- Expiration date (disambiguation)
- Expiration (film), a 2004 independent feature film
Usage examples of "expiration".
In 1901, some eleven years after the expiration of the antisocialist laws, the state relented.
The abdominal muscles relax during inspiration and the diaphragm relaxes during expiration, thus rendering the forces nearly equal, though the strength is in favor of the expiratory muscles.
The misconception in regard to this has arisen from the fact that under certain regulations paroles are granted before the expiration of the statutory sentence.
The pope still continued to thunder out his excommunications against Lewis and all the adherents of the schismatical council: the Swiss cantons made professions of violent animosity against France: the ambassadors of Ferdinand and Maximilian had signed with those of Henry a treaty of alliance against that power, and had stipulated the time and place of their intended invasion: and though Ferdinand disavowed his ambassador, and even signed a truce for a twelvemonth with the common enemy, Henry was not yet fully convinced of his selfish and sinister intentions, and still hoped for his concurrence after the expiration of that term.
He most easily retains and repeats, among the infinitely manifold consonants that are produced by loud expiration, those which have been distinctly heard by him.
Despacio had been one of the few free converts who did not have a built-in expiration date written into his coding.
Just how valuable this concession was, and how it operated, is difficult to understand, as we find other printers, such as Calliergi, issuing Greek volumes in Venice long before the expiration of this period.
I was aware that the furniture would be sold on the expiration of the term, I placed my wants under no restraint.
Caddy only laughed in return, and telling me that she had come for half an hour, at the expiration of which time Prince would be waiting for her at the corner, sat chatting with me and Ada in the window, every now and then handing me the flowers again or trying how they looked against my hair.
At the expiration of the seven years, all properties of every kind were to be divided into two equal parts, of which the Adventurers were to take one and the Planters the other, in full satisfaction of their respective investments and claims.
I hired from a Jew a bed, a table and a few chairs, promising to pay for the hire at the expiration of our quarantine.
For this purpose an armoured train was despatched only three days after the expiration of the ultimatum to the point four hundred miles south of Bulawayo, where the frontiers of the Transvaal and of Bechuanaland join.
Maybe it had been a bit of a hot spot during the Soviet era, but from what I could see of it in my headlights and the occasional functioning streetlight, it was now very tired and flaky, the Estonian equivalent of those Victorian places in Britain that reached their expiration date in the seventies when everyone started getting on planes to Spain.
A little before the expiration of the two months, during which time the poste restante retained the letters containing the thirty thousand francs, he called for them, and readdressed and mailed them to other post-offices.
He drew up to relieve himself of a critical and condemnatory expiration of a certain length.