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VAPORISATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annihilation by vaporizing something
Synonyms:
vaporisation; vaporization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("vaporisation" is a kind of...):
annihilation; obliteration (destruction by annihilating something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The process of becoming a vapor
Synonyms:
evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("vaporisation" 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 "vaporisation"):
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:
vaporise (lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue)
vaporise (turn into gas)
