vaporization

English

Alternative forms

• vaporisation, vapourisation, vapourization

Etymology

Etymology tree

English vapor

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ization

English vaporization

From vapor + -ization.

Noun

vaporization (countable and uncountable, plural vaporizations)

1. A conversion of a solid or a liquid into a gas.
2. A destruction of something by turning it into vapor.

Hyponyms

• evaporation
• boiling

Derived terms

• enthalpy of vaporization
• heat of vaporization

Translations

conversion of a solid to gas

• Bulgarian: изпаряване n (izparjavane)
• Catalan: vaporització f
• Czech: odpaření ?, odpařování ?, vypaření ?, vypařování (cs) ?
• Dutch: verdamping (nl) f
• Finnish: haihtuminen (fi)
• Georgian: აორთქლება (aortkleba)
• German: Verdampfung f, Verdampfen n
• Hindi: वाष्पीकरण m (vāṣpīkraṇ)
• Icelandic: gufumyndun f
• Macedonian: испару́вање n (isparúvanje)
• Malayalam: ബാഷ്പീകരണം (ml) (bāṣpīkaraṇaṁ)
• Māori: rehuwaitanga
• Portuguese: vaporização (pt) f
• Romanian: vaporizare (ro) f
• Spanish: vaporización (es) f
• Tagalog: sasingaw

destruction

• Czech: vypaření ?
• Finnish: haihduttaminen (fi); höyrystäminen (fi)
• Georgian: აორთქლება (aortkleba)
• Macedonian: испару́вање n (isparúvanje)