GASEOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gaseous mean? 

• GASEOUS (adjective)
  The adjective GASEOUS has 1 sense:

1. existing as or having characteristics of a gas

  Familiarity information: GASEOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASEOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Existing as or having characteristics of a gas

Context example:

steam is water is the gaseous state

Similar:

aeriform; airlike (resembling air or having the form of air)

aerosolised; aerosolized (in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas)

evaporated (drawn off in the form of vapor)

gasified; vaporized; vapourised; volatilised; volatilized (converted into a gas or vapor)

gassy (resembling gas)

vaporific; vaporish; vaporous; vapourific; vapourish; vapourous (resembling or characteristic of vapor)

Attribute:

state; state of matter ((chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container))

Antonym:

liquid (existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow)

solid (of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous)

Derivation:

gas (the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container)

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)

gaseousness (having the consistency of a gas)

 Context examples 

A fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely.

(Gas, NCI Thesaurus)

A colorless inorganic compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3, usually in gaseous form with a characteristic pungent odor.

(Ammonia, NCI Thesaurus)

In real life, thanks to observatories such as NASA's Kepler space telescope, we know that two-star systems can indeed support planets, although planets discovered so far around double-star systems are large and gaseous.

(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)

There are two forms: plasma membrane GCs that are receptors for hormones, and intracellular soluble GCs that are activated by the gaseous second messenger nitric oxide (NO).

(Guanylate Cyclase, NCI Thesaurus)

Any process in which the release of the gaseous signaling molecule nitric oxide is reduced.

(Negative Regulation of Nitric Oxide Release, NCI Thesaurus)

A fluorinated hydrocarbon and gaseous substance used as an imaging contrast agent.

(Perflutren, NCI Thesaurus)

The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.

(Odor, NCI Thesaurus)

The majority of the mercury — 70 percent — found in the Arctic does not come from rain or snow, but in a gaseous form.

(Study finds mercury levels in Arctic soils 5 times higher than temperate regions, National Science Foundation)

The team found a clean division in the sizes of rocky, Earth-size planets and gaseous planets smaller than Neptune.

(NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates, NASA)

The oddball exoplanet, called WASP-12b, is one of a class of so-called "hot Jupiters," gigantic, gaseous planets that orbit very close to their host star and are heated to extreme temperatures.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)