evaporation

See also: évaporation

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French évaporation, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin evaporatio

Pronunciation

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• 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) n (izparenie)
• Danish: fordampning (da) c
• Dutch: verdamping
• Finnish: haihtuminen (fi), haihdunta, höyrystyminen (fi)
• French: évaporation (fr)
• Greek: εξάτμιση (el) f (exátmisi), εξαέρωση (el) f (exaérosi)
• Italian: vaporizzazione (it)
• Macedonian: испарување n (isparuvanje)
• Maori: whakaetonga
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fordamping m or f, fordampning m or f

  Nynorsk: fordamping f

• Polish: parowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: evaporação (pt) f
• Russian: испаре́ние (ru) n (isparénije), парообразова́ние (ru) n (paroobrazovánije)
• Spanish: evaporación (es) f
• Tagalog: hisingaw, alanguang
• Thai: การระเหย (th) (gaan-rá-hə̌əi)
• Ukrainian: випаровування (vyparovuvannja)

process to increase concentration

• Albanian: avullim (sq)
• Bulgarian: изпаряване n (izparjavane)
• Danish: inddampning c
• Finnish: haihduttaminen (fi), haihdutus (fi)
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• Greek: εξαέρωση (el) f (exaérosi)
• Polish: odparowanie n
• Portuguese: evaporação (pt) f
• Russian: выпа́ривание (ru) n (vypárivanije)

(archaic) vapor

• Albanian: avull (sq)
• Bulgarian: изпарение (bg) n (izparenie)
• Finnish: höyry (fi)
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• Macedonian: испарување n (isparuvanje)
• Russian: испаре́ние (ru) n (isparénije)

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• French: ^{(please verify)} évaporation (fr) f
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• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} אידוי

See also

• vaporization