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gas·e·ous

Audio Help [gas-ee-uh

s, gash-uh

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–adjective

1.	existing in the state of a gas; not solid or liquid.

2.	pertaining to or having the characteristics of gas.

3.	Informal. lacking firmness or solidity; uncertain; not definite.

4.	gassy (defs. 1, 3).

[Origin: 1790–1800; gas + -eous

]

—Related forms

gas·e·ous·ness, gas·e·i·ty

Audio Help [ga-see-i-tee] Pronunciation Key, noun

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gas·e·ous Audio Help (gās'ē-əs, gāsh'əs) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Of, relating to, or existing as a gas.
Lacking substance or concreteness; tenuous or indefinite.
Full of or containing gas; gassy.

gas'e·ous·ness n.

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gaseous
adjective
existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is water is the gaseous state" [ant: solid, liquid]

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gaseous [ˈgӕsiəs] adjective

of or like (a) gas
Example: a gaseous substance

Arabic:	غازي
Chinese (Simplified):	气体的
Chinese (Traditional):	氣體的
Czech:	plynný
Danish:	gasagtig
Dutch:	gasachtig
Estonian:	gaasiline, gaasjas
Finnish:	kaasumainen
French:	gazeux
German:	gasförmig
Greek:	αεριώδης
Hungarian:	gáznemű
Icelandic:	gaskenndur
Indonesian:	seperti gas
Italian:	gassoso

Japanese:	気体の
Korean:	가스의
Latvian:	gāzes-; gāzveida-
Lithuanian:	dujinis, dujų
Norwegian:	gassholdig, *-aktig; luftig
Polish:	lotny, gazowy
Portuguese (Brazil):	gasoso
Portuguese (Portugal):	gasoso
Romanian:	gazos
Russian:	газообразный; газовый
Slovak:	plynný
Slovenian:	plinast
Spanish:	gaseoso
Swedish:	gasformig, -artad
Turkish:	gazlı, gaz gibi

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gas Audio Help (gās) Pronunciation Key
One of four main states of matter, composed of molecules in constant random motion. Unlike a solid, a gas has no fixed shape and will take on the shape of the space available. Unlike a liquid, the intermolecular forces are very small; it has no fixed volume and will expand to fill the space available.

gaseous adjective (gās'ē-əs, gāsh'əs)

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gas·e·ous (gs-s, gshs)
adj.

Of, relating to, or existing as a gas.
Full of or containing gas; gassy.

gase·ous·ness n.

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Main Entry: gas·eous
Pronunciation: 'gas-E-&s, 'gash-&s
Function: adjective
: having the form of or being gas; also : of or relating to gases

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gaseous

adj. Deserving of being gassed. Disseminated by Geoff Goodfellow while at SRI; became particularly popular after the Moscone-Milk killings in San Francisco, when it was learned that the defendant Dan White (a politician who had supported Proposition 7) would get the gas chamber under Proposition 7 if convicted of first-degree murder (he was eventually convicted of manslaughter).

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Gaseous

Gas"e*ous\ (? or ?; 277), a. [From Gas. Cf. F. gazeux.]

1. In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an a["e]riform fluid.

2. Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous. "Unconnected, gaseous information." --Sir J. Stephen.

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