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evaporation

[ ih-vap-uh-rey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act or process of evaporating.
  2. the state of being evaporated.
  3. Archaic. matter or the quantity of matter evaporated or passed off in vapor.


evaporation

/ ĭ-văp′ə-rāshən /

  1. The change of a liquid into a vapor at a temperature below the boiling point. Evaporation takes place at the surface of a liquid, where molecules with the highest kinetic energy are able to escape. When this happens, the average kinetic energy of the liquid is lowered, and its temperature decreases.


evaporation

  1. The changing of a liquid into a gas , often under the influence of heat (as in the boiling of water). ( See vaporization .)


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Notes

The evaporation of water from the oceans is a major component in the hydrologic cycle .

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Other Words From

  • e·vap·o·ra·tive [ih-, vap, -, uh, -rey-tiv, -er-, uh, -tiv], adjective
  • e·vapo·rative·ly adverb
  • none·vapo·ration noun
  • none·vapo·rative adjective
  • pree·vapo·ration noun
  • une·vapo·rative adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of evaporation1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English evaporacioun, from Latin ēvapōrātiōn- (stem of ēvapōrātiō ); evaporate, -ion

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Example Sentences

Like Earth, Titan has weather, with evaporation, clouds, rain, and wind.

Unless big storms hit, summer evaporation and lawn-watering is going to push things back into the critical mode.

With the drought and fire came high winds, dust storms, record temperatures, and ramped up evaporation levels.

What price will we pay for the inevitable evaporation of candor?

This evaporation of the sea water is proportional to the temperature and to the dryness of the air where it rests upon the ocean.

After the Mormon fiasco and the evaporation of the Fieldingites, another denomination took it.

Salt was at first obtained by the evaporation of sea-water, but was afterwards mined.

There being no soil, the fountains disappeared; there being no evaporation, the rains diminished.

The ether, on evaporation, left the ester which was crystallized from water and dried in a desiccator over sulphuric acid.

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