EVAPORATION

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of becoming a vapor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; 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)

Derivation:

evaporate (change into a vapor)

evaporate (cause to change into a vapor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The process of extracting moisture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

dehydration; desiccation; drying up; evaporation

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)

 Context examples 

A process that is not otherwise specified, which removes water or a volatile solvent by evaporation.

(Drying Method, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)

With its dense atmosphere, Titan has a methane cycle much like Earth's water cycle of evaporation, cloud formation, rainfall, surface runoff into rivers, and collection in lakes and seas.

(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)

On Earth, we're familiar with the cycle of evaporation and condensation of water.

(Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud on Titan, NASA)

The lack of sufficient water to carve gullies has resulted in a variety of theories for the gullies' creation, including different mechanisms involving evaporation of water and carbon dioxide frost.

(Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water, NASA)

The plants pump more water through transpiration, the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from leaves, to meet the calcium demand.

(Previously unknown mechanism causes increased forest water use, National Science Foundation)

Isolation of pure liquids by virtue of their different evaporation characteristics.

(Evaporation Purification, NCI Thesaurus)

Fluid extract is prepared by percolation and subsequent evaporation such that the ingredient in each milliliter of the fluid extract is equivalent to 1 gram of the dried plant or animal derived matter.

(Fluid Extract Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Zero tillage is recommended to avoid high evaporation and transpiration in their plot.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)

Arruda explains the biofilm is capable of protecting eggs from production to commercialisation stages, preventing eggs from losing moisture mass through evaporation.

(Protective bio-shell could extend egg shelf life, SciDev.Net)

An unbranched, coiled, tubular gland not associated with the hair follicle that promotes cooling by evaporation of its secretion.

(Eccrine Sweat Gland, NCI Thesaurus)