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Webster 1913 Edition
Exhaustion
Ex-haus′tion
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
exhaustion
.] 1.
The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.
2.
The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.
3.
(Math.)
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.
☞ The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications and quadratures, now investigated by the calculus.
Webster 1828 Edition
Exhaustion
EXHAUST'ION
,Noun.
1.
The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.2.
In mathematics, a method of proving the equality of two magnitudes by a reductio ad absurdum, or showing that if one is supposed either greater or less than the other, there will arise a contradiction.Definition 2024
exhaustion
exhaustion
English
Noun
exhaustion (usually uncountable, plural exhaustions)
- The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
- We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.
- Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess:
- As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
- I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away.
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- (dated, chemistry) The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
- (dated, physics) The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
- (mathematics) An exhaustive procedure
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- See also Wikisaurus:fatigue
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point of complete depletion
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supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy
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