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PERVAPORATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pervaporate mean?
• PERVAPORATE (verb)
The verb PERVAPORATE has 2 senses:
1. evaporate through a semipermeable membrane
2. cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane
Familiarity information: PERVAPORATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: pervaporated
Past participle: pervaporated
-ing form: pervaporating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evaporate through a semipermeable membrane
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "pervaporate" is one way to...):
evaporate; vaporise (change into a vapor)
Verb group:
pervaporate (cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
pervaporation (the concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane; solution is placed in a bag of the membrane and the solvent is evaporated off)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "pervaporate" is one way to...):
evaporate; vaporise (cause to change into a vapor)
Verb group:
pervaporate (evaporate through a semipermeable membrane)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
pervaporation (the concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane; solution is placed in a bag of the membrane and the solvent is evaporated off)
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