English > gaseous: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Existing as or having characteristics / characteristics of a gas. |
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| Example | "steam is water is the gaseous state" |
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| Attribute of | state of matter, state | (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids / liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) |
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| Narrower | aeriform, airlike | resembling air or having the form of air |
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| aerosolized, aerosolised | In the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas |
| evaporated | Drawn off in the form of vapor |
| gasified, vaporized, vapourised, volatilized, volatilised | converted into a gas or vapor |
| gassy | resembling gas |
| vaporific, vapourific, vaporish, vapourish, vaporous, vapourous | resembling or characteristic of vapor |
| Opposite | liquid | Existing as or having characteristics / characteristics of a liquid / liquid |
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| solid | Of definite shape and volume |
| Spanish | gaseoso |
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| Catalan | gasós |
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| Nouns | gas | the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by |
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| gas | a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely |
| gaseousness | having the consistency of a gas |
