plural of exhaustment

plural of exhaustion

Misspelling of exhaustible.

(US, law) The combination, in a patent claim, of a novel device with conventional elements in a conventional manner.

(physics) A receiver, such as that used with an air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel whose interior is a more or less complete vacuum.

plural of exhausted receiver

(logic) The indirect verification or falsification of a statement by the verification or falsification of each of the finite number of cases which arise therefrom.

plural of proof by exhaustion

(in an internal combustion engine) a valve through which the products of combustion escape from the cylinder to the manifold

For internal combustion engines, the pipe that vents waste gases from the engine.