The word exhaust can mean:-

• A verb meaning "tire out", as in "After the long gallop, his horse was exhausted."
• A verb meaning "use up, consume", as in "That area's copper ore deposits are nearly exhausted".

In set theory, exhaustive is an attribute of rule(s) for defining the inclusion/exclusion of elements of a collection of sets such that no non-exclusive elements remain which cannot definitely be included in one and only one set.

• A noun meaning "waste gases produced by an internal combustion engine" (see exhaust gas), or "the pipework that those waste gases are discharged through".
• A noun meaning "waste low-pressure steam emitted by a steam engine".
• Sometimes, the pipe in a breathing apparatus that its user breathes out through.
• The backblast produced by a jet engine or a rocket.

• Exhaust is a Montreal-based band.

The word comes from the Latin exhaustus meaning "drained dry, emptied", from the verb exhauriō.

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