evaporation

See also: évaporation

English

Etymology

From Old French évaporation, from Latin evaporatio Morphologically evaporate +‎ -ion

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.

Derived terms

• coevaporation

Translations

process of liquid converting to the gaseous state

• Albanian: avullim (sq)
• Bulgarian: изпарение (bg) n (izparenie)
• Catalan: evaporació (ca) f
• Danish: fordampning (da) c
• Dutch: verdamping (nl)
• Finnish: haihtuminen (fi), haihdunta, höyrystyminen (fi)
• French: évaporation (fr)
• Galician: evaporación (gl) f
• German: Verdunstung (de) f, Verdunsten n, Verdampfung f, Verdampfen n
• Greek: εξάτμιση (el) f (exátmisi), εξαέρωση (el) f (exaérosi)
• Italian: vaporizzazione (it)
• Japanese: 蒸発 (ja) (じょうはつ, jōhatsu)
• Kashubian: ropienié
• Macedonian: испарување n (isparuvanje), испарение n (isparenie)
• Maori: whakaetonga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fordamping m or f, fordampning m or f

  Nynorsk: fordamping f

• Polish: parowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: evaporação (pt) f
• Romanian: evaporare (ro) f
• Russian: испаре́ние (ru) n (isparénije), парообразова́ние (ru) n (paroobrazovánije)
• Spanish: evaporación (es) f
• Swahili: uvukizaji
• 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)
• Galician: evaporación (gl) f
• German: Eindampfen n, Einkochen n, Reduzieren n
• Greek: εξαέρωση (el) f (exaérosi)
• Kashubian: wëropienié
• Polish: odparowanie n
• Portuguese: evaporação (pt) f
• Russian: выпа́ривание (ru) n (vypárivanije)

(archaic) vapor — see vapor

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

See also

• vaporization
• sublimation (the process of a solid converting directly to a gaseous state)