WATER VAPOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water vapor mean? 

• WATER VAPOR (noun)
  The noun WATER VAPOR has 1 sense:

1. water in a vaporous form diffused in the atmosphere but below boiling temperature

  Familiarity information: WATER VAPOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER VAPOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water in a vaporous form diffused in the atmosphere but below boiling temperature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

water vapor; water vapour

Hypernyms ("water vapor" is a kind of...):

vapor; vapour (a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water vapor"):

spray (water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall)

Holonyms ("water vapor" is a substance of...):

cloud (a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude)

 Context examples 

If you have water vapor in the atmosphere, it's hard to form droplets all by itself.

(Estimating how pollen particles in the atmosphere influence climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The nighttime side is more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit cooler, which allows water vapor and clouds to form.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)

OH in the atmosphere also forms when ultraviolet sunlight reaches the lower atmosphere and reacts with water vapor (H2O) and ozone (O3) to form two OH molecules.

(Greenhouse Gas ‘Detergent’ Recycles Itself in Atmosphere, NASA)

Water vapor is carried up with the same air mass rising with the dust.

(Dust Storms Linked to Gas Escape from Mars Atmosphere, NASA)

A temporary atmosphere would be consistent with the water vapor the Herschel Space Observatory detected at Ceres in 2012-2013.

(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)

Mars has water vapor and plenty of frozen water, but the presence of liquid water on the neighboring planet, a necessity for all known life, has not been confirmed.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

A measure of the water vapor content of air.

(Humidity, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with damage inflicted upon the device or device components from water vapor or water in the immediate environment in which the device is being used.

(Moisture Damage to Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

They believe the moon must have been spewing out so much super-heated volatile gas, including water vapor, during these periods that it could have sustained life.

(Life Could Exist on Moon 4 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The results revealed the molecular signature of water vapor, and also suggest the presence of hydrogen and helium in the planet’s atmosphere.

(Hubble Finds Water Vapor on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet for 1st Time, NASA)