evaporation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

evaporation (countable and uncountable; plural evaporations)

1. The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
2. The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.
3. (archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor.

Translations

process of liquid converting to the gaseous state

• Albanian: avullim (sq)
• Bulgarian: изпарение (bg) (izparenie) n
• Danish: fordampning (da) c
• Dutch: verdamping (nl)
• Finnish: haihtuminen (fi), haihdunta (fi)
• French: évaporation (fr)

• Greek: εξάτμιση (el) (exátmisi) f, εξαέρωση (el) (exaérosi) f
• Italian: vaporizzazione (it)
• Macedonian: испарување (mk) (isparúvanje) n
• Polish: parowanie (pl) n
• Russian: испарение (ru) (ispar'énije) n, парообразование (ru) (paroobrazovánije) n
• Spanish: evaporación (es) f

process to increase concentration

• Albanian: avullim (sq)
• Bulgarian: изпаряване (bg) (izparjavane) n
• Danish: inddampning (da) c
• Finnish: haihduttaminen (fi), haihdutus (fi)

• Greek: εξαέρωση (el) (exaérosi) f
• Polish: odparowanie (pl) n
• Russian: выпаривание (ru) (vypárivanije) n

(archaic) vapor

• Albanian: avull (sq)
• Bulgarian: изпарение (bg) (izparenie) n

• Finnish: höyry (fi)
• Macedonian: испарување (mk) (isparúvanje) n
• Russian: испарение (ru) (ispar'énije) n

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• French: évaporation (fr) f
• Hebrew: אידוי (he)

See also

• vaporization