vapor
IPA: vˈeɪpɝ
noun
- Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
- The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
- Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
- (dated) Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.
- (archaic, in the plural) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
- (obsolete) Wind; flatulence.
verb
- (intransitive) To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
- (transitive) To turn into vapor.
- To emit vapor or fumes.
- (intransitive) To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
- (transitive) To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.
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Examples of "vapor" in Sentences
- The effect of the water vapor appears in the temperature.
- The water vapor passes through the tube into the carburetor.
- The applied heat converts the water in the solution into vapor.
- This causes sublimation or evaporation of the CO and water vapor.
- The vaporizer includes a platform floating on a reservoir of water.
- The Martian atmosphere is devoid of water vapor for the same reason.
- One is temperature and the other is the ambient vapor pressure of water.
- The amount of water vapor directly controls the permittivity of the air.
- The water vapor is removed from the drying gas by means of condensation.
- The standard enthalpy change of vaporization of water is 540 calories per gram.
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