NITROUS OXIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nitrous oxide mean? 

• NITROUS OXIDE (noun)
  The noun NITROUS OXIDE has 1 sense:

1. inhalation anesthetic used as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery

  Familiarity information: NITROUS OXIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NITROUS OXIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inhalation anesthetic used as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

laughing gas; nitrous oxide

Hypernyms ("nitrous oxide" is a kind of...):

inhalation anaesthetic; inhalation anesthetic; inhalation general anaesthetic; inhalation general anesthetic (a gas that produces general anesthesia when inhaled)

Meronyms (substance of "nitrous oxide"):

ammonium nitrate (used as an explosive and fertilizer and rocket propellant)

 Context examples 

Similarly, nitrous oxide levels, another greenhouse gas, have increased at faster rates recently.

(Warming due to carbon dioxide jumped by half in 25 years, NOAA)

The fertilizers used in agriculture play a significant role in reducing the release of nitrous oxide.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

Issue associated with the facility-supplied medical gases such as medical air, oxygen, nitrous oxide, and nitrogen.

(Medical Gas Supply Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

A cryoprobe is cooled with substances such as liquid nitrogen, liquid nitrous oxide, or compressed argon gas.

(Cryoablation, NCI Dictionary)

This is an important step in reducing nitrous oxide emissions, because bacteria in the soil convert nitrate to nitrous oxide and other gases.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

Cantarella’s work enables a 95 per cent reduction in emissions of nitrous oxide associated with cane cultivation.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

But it releases nitrous oxide which, pound for pound, causes a greenhouse effect approximately 300 times greater than carbon dioxide.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)