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- Dictionaryva·por/ˈvāpər/
noun
- 1. a substance diffused or suspended in the air, especially one normally liquid or solid: "dense clouds of smoke and toxic vapor"
- 2. a sudden feeling of faintness or nervousness or a state of depression: dated "a fit of the vapors"
verb
- 1. talk in a vacuous, boasting, or pompous way: "he was vaporing on about the days of his youth"
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The meaning of VAPOR is diffused matter (such as smoke or fog) suspended floating in the air and impairing its transparency. How to use vapor in a sentence. Did you know?
Vapor definition: a visible exhalation, such as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air. See examples of VAPOR used in a sentence.
gas or extremely small drops of liquid that result from the heating of a liquid or solid: The hollow glass tank contains hot mercury vapor. Poisonous vapors burst out of the factory during the accident. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Physics: the state of matter. absorbency. absorption. acidic. allotropic. allotropy. compressible.
va·por. (vā′pər) n. 1. The gaseous state of a substance that is liquid or solid at room temperature. 2. A faintly visible suspension of fine particles of matter in the air, as mist, fumes, or smoke. 3. A mixture of fine droplets of a substance and air, as the fuel mixture of an internal-combustion engine. 4. Archaic. a.
When something that is normally liquid — like water — becomes a visible, gas-like substance floating in the air, it's a vapor. The fog that often settles across your town in the mornings is one kind of vapor.
Definition of vapor noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air. the vapors rising from the bogs. 2. Physics. a gas at a temperature below its critical temperature. 3. a substance converted into vapor for technical or medicinal uses. 4.
Vapor definition: A faintly visible suspension of fine particles of matter in the air, as mist, fumes, or smoke. Dictionary Thesaurus
VAPOR meaning: a substance that is in the form of a gas or that consists of very small drops or particles mixed with the air
a substance converted into vapor for technical or medicinal uses. a combination of a vaporized substance and air. gaseous particles of drugs that can be inhaled as a therapeutic agent.
