Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
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- noun
evaporation
Etymologies
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Compare French vaporation, Latin vaporatio.
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Examples
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Leaning over it, the doctors saw a number of tiny, jet black cylinders clinging to the side of the bowl where e - vaporation of the water had left them stranded.
Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943
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Agriculture renovates the face of ter will produce a foul and noxious nature; it replenishes the earth, vaporation, very hurtful to man and making it not only fruitful in a beast.
Sporting Magazine 1812
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