Meaning of EVAPORATION
| Pronunciation: | | i`vapu'reyshun
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- [n] the process of extracting moisture
- [n] the process of becoming a vapor
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| | Synonyms: | | dehydration, desiccation, drying up, vapor, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour |
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| | See Also: | | boiling, clouding, clouding up, extraction, freeze-drying, inspissation, lyophilisation, lyophilization, phase change, phase transition, physical change, smoke, smoking, state change | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \E*vap`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. evaporatio: cf. F.
['e]vaporation.]
1. The process by which any substance is converted from a
liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the
evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.
2. The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in
order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a
state of greater consistence.
3. That which is evaporated; vapor.
4. (Steam Engine) See {Vaporization}.
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| | Related Terms: | | ablation, aeration, aerification, air-drying, anhydration, atomization, attenuation, blackout, blast-freezing, blocking, bottling, brining, broadcast, broadcasting, canning, circumfusion, consumption, corning, curing, decrease, decrement, dehumidification, dehydration, dematerialization, departure, depletion, depreciation, desiccation, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, disappearance, disappearing, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, distillation, distribution, divergence, drain, drainage, dry-curing, drying, drying up, eclipse, elimination, embalming, erasure, erosion, etherealization, etherification, evanescence, exhalation, exhaustion, expansion, expenditure, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, fluidization, fractionation, fragmentation, freeze-drying, freezing, fumigation, fuming, gasification, going, impoverishment, insolation, irradiation, jerking, leakage, marination, melting, mummification, occultation, passing, peppering, pickling, potting, propagation, publication, quick-freezing, radiation, refrigeration, salting, scattering, scatterment, seasoning, shotgun pattern, shrinkage, smoking, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, steaming, strewing, stuffing, sublimation, taxidermy, tinning, using, using up, vanishing, vanishing point, vaporization, volatilization, wastage, waste, wearing, wearing away, wipe, withering |
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