EVAPORATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does evaporation mean?
• EVAPORATION (noun)
The noun EVAPORATION has 2 senses:
1. the process of becoming a vapor
2. the process of extracting moisture
Familiarity information: EVAPORATION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EVAPORATION (noun)
Meaning:
The process of becoming a vapor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
evaporation; vaporisation; vapor; vaporization; vapour
Hypernyms ("evaporation" is a kind of...):
phase change; phase transition; physical change; state change (a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evaporation"):
boiling (the application of heat to change something from a 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)
Meaning:
The process of extracting moisture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
drying up; desiccation; evaporation; dehydration
Hypernyms ("evaporation" is a kind of...):
extraction (the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evaporation"):
freeze-drying; lyophilisation; lyophilization (a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes)
inspissation (the process of thickening by dehydration)
Holonyms ("evaporation" is a part of...):
plastination (a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened)
