VAPORISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vaporisation mean? 

• VAPORISATION (noun)
  The noun VAPORISATION has 2 senses:

1. the process of becoming a vapor

2. annihilation by vaporizing something

  Familiarity information: VAPORISATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VAPORISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of becoming a vapor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Annihilation by vaporizing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

vaporisation; vaporization

Hypernyms ("vaporisation" is a kind of...):

annihilation; obliteration (destruction by annihilating something)