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
- Water vapor is the most powerful/ubiquitous greenhouse gas
- Dryer B: A hot vapor is injected onto clothes inside the dryer drum.
- Water vapor is vastly greater in actual effect than CO2, you going to ban that too?
- In visible light water vapor is not a problem; as long as clouds don't form, it's transparent.
- RealClimate noted this fact several years ago, claiming that water vapor is a feedback, not a forcing.
- * As more water vapor is added to the atmosphere, generally scientists believe that it will increase cloud cover
- Alex J says: the Colonel (ret): Water vapor is vastly greater in actual effect than CO2, you going to ban that too?
- However, water vapor is consistently the most common volcanic gas, normally comprising more than 60% of total emissions.
- Water vapor: Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas, and skeptics have tried to use this fact to dismiss claims about atmospheric CO2 levels.
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