NOUN | process | evaporation, vaporization, vaporisation, vapor, vapour | the process of becoming a vapor |
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process | evaporation, dehydration, desiccation, drying up | the process of extracting moisture |
Sounds | ihvae.perey'shahn; iyvae.perey'shahn | |
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Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... |
Meaning | The process of becoming a vapor. | |
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Synonyms | vaporization, vaporisation, vapor, vapour | |
Narrower | boiling | The application of heat / heat to change something from a liquid / liquid to a gas |
clouding, clouding up | The process whereby water particles become visible in the sky | |
smoke, smoking | A hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion | |
Broader | phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change | A change from one state (solid or liquid / liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition |
Spanish | evaporación, vaporación, vaporización, vapor | |
Catalan | evaporació, vaporització, vapor | |
Adjectives | evaporative | relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation |
Verbs | evaporate | change into a vapor |
evaporate | cause to change into a vapor |
Meaning | The process of extracting moisture. | |
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Synonyms | dehydration, desiccation, drying up | |
Part of | plastination | A process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues |
Narrower | freeze-drying, lyophilization, lyophilisation | A method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure |
inspissation | The process of thickening by dehydration | |
Broader | extraction | The process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means |
Spanish | desecación, deshidratación | |
Catalan | deshidratació, dessecació | |
Verbs | evaporate | lose or cause to lose liquid / liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue |
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