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EVAPORATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of extracting moisture
Synonyms:
dehydration; desiccation; drying up; evaporation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
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)
Derivation:
evaporate (lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The process of becoming a vapor
Synonyms:
evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
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)
Derivation:
evaporate (change into a vapor)
evaporate (cause to change into a vapor)
Context examples:
Or evaporation might preserve an equilibrium, remarked Challenger, and the two learned men wandered off into one of their usual scientific arguments, which were as comprehensible as Chinese to the layman.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the other hand, perhaps comet 67P/C-G may have once been a much rounder object that became highly asymmetric thanks to ice evaporation.
(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)
A concentrated preparation of vegetable or animal drugs obtained by removal of the active constituents of the respective drugs with a suitable menstrua, evaporation of all or nearly all of the solvent, and adjustment of the residual masses or powders to the prescribed standards.
(Extract Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Scientist Rong Fu of UCLA, a leader of the new research efforts, published a paper in 2004 suggesting that increased evaporation of water from leaves — a process known as transpiration — might be the cause.
(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)
It took a few weeks of very hard thinking to figure out that the only way to make such a disc is the evaporation of a giant planet, says Matthias Schreiber from the University of Valparaiso in Chile, who computed the past and future evolution of this system.
(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)
A liquid preparation (i.e., a substance that flows readily in its natural state) that contains a drug dissolved in a suitable solvent or mixture of mutually miscible solvents; the drug has been strengthened by the evaporation of its non-active parts.
(Concentrated Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Adapting to an overabundance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, trees, plants and grasses constrict their pores to regulate the amount of CO2 they consume, a mechanism that limits the release of water from leaves through evaporation.
(Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, National Science Foundation)
Using ancient sediment from outcrops along the edge of the lake, Emily Beverly, a sedimentary geologist at the University of Houston, along with researchers at Baylor University, generated a water-budget model to see how Lake Victoria's levels respond to changes in evaporation, temperature, rainfall and solar energy.
(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)
Like rain and snow clouds on Earth, those clouds form through a cycle of evaporation and condensation, with vapor rising from the surface, encountering cooler and cooler temperatures and falling back down as precipitation.
(NASA Finds Methane Ice Cloud in Titan's Stratosphere, NASA)
