Exhaust, exhaustive, or exhaustion may refer to:
Law
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Exhaustion of intellectual property rights, limits to intellectual property rights in patent and copyright law
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Exhaustion doctrine, in patent law
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Exhaustion doctrine under U.S. law, in patent law
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Exhaustion of remedies
The doctrine of exhaustion of remedies prevents a litigant from seeking a remedy in a new court or jurisdiction until all claims or remedies have been exhausted (pursued as fully as possible) in the original one. The doctrine was originally cre ...
, restrictions on opening a new lawsuit while an original suit is pending
Mathematics
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Brute-force attack, a cryptanalytic attack, also known as exhaustive key search
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Collectively exhaustive, in probability and set theory, a collection of sets whose union equals the complete space
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Exhaustion by compact sets, in analysis, a sequence of compact sets that converges on a given set
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Method of exhaustion, in geometry, finding the area of a shape by approximating it with polygons
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Proof by exhaustion, proof by examining all individual cases
Medicine
*Exhaustion or
fatigue (medical), a weariness caused by exertion
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Adrenal exhaustion
Adrenal fatigue or hypoadrenia is a pseudo-scientific term used by alternative medicine providers to suggest that the adrenal glands are exhausted and unable to produce adequate quantities of hormones, primarily cortisol, due to chronic stress o ...
or hypoadrenia, a hypothesized maladaption of the adrenal glands
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Heat exhaustion or hyperthermia, a medical condition where the body is unable to control its accumulation of heat
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Nervous exhaustion or neurasthenia, a nineteenth-century diagnosis encompassing fatigue, anxiety, and depression
Technology
*Exhaust, in
steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force can be trans ...
s, steam released from a cylinder
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Exhaust brake, a method of slowing diesel engines
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Exhaust gas, a gas which occurs as a result of combustion of fuel
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Exhaust manifold
In automotive engineering, an exhaust manifold collects the exhaust gases from multiple cylinders into one pipe. The word ''manifold'' comes from the Old English word ''manigfeald'' (from the Anglo-Saxon ''manig'' anyand ''feald'' old and refe ...
, a structure collecting an engine's exhaust outlets
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Exhaust system, a mechanism for venting exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine
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Exhaust velocity, a measure of engine efficiency
Other uses
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Exhaust (band)
Exhaust was a Canadian trio from Montreal featuring bass, drums, tape and bass clarinet, active from 1995 to 2012. The members were Aidan Girt
Aidan Girt is a Canadian drummer for the Montreal-based post-rock collectives Godspeed You! Black Emp ...
, a clarinet, drum, and tape trio in Montreal, Canada
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''Exhaust'' (album), the band's 1998 self-titled album
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Exhaust date, the projected date that a telecommunications area code will have assigned all of its numbers
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Exhaustive ballot, a multi-round voting system
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