| NOUN | process | vaporisation, vaporization, vapor, vapour, evaporation | the process of becoming a vapor |
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| act | vaporisation, vaporization | annihilation by vaporizing something |
| Meaning | The process of becoming a vapor. | |
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| Synonyms | vaporization, vapor, vapour, evaporation | |
| Narrower | boiling | The application of heat / heat to change something from a liquid / 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 | |
| Broader | phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change | A change from one state (solid or liquid / liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition |
| Catalan | evaporació | |
| Spanish | evaporación | |
| Verbs | vaporise | turn into gas |
| vaporise | lose or cause to lose liquid / liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | |
| Meaning | annihilation by vaporizing something. | |
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| Synonym | vaporization | |
| Broader | annihilation, obliteration | Destruction by annihilating something |