FINE SPRAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fine spray mean? 

• FINE SPRAY (noun)
  The noun FINE SPRAY has 1 sense:

1. precipitation in very small drops

  Familiarity information: FINE SPRAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINE SPRAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Precipitation in very small drops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("fine spray" is a kind of...):

downfall; precipitation (the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist))

 Context examples 

A device used to turn liquid into a fine spray.

(Nebulizer, NCI Dictionary)

The finding implies the fine spray of water vapor, icy particles and simple organic molecules Cassini has observed coming from fractures near the moon's south pole is being fed by this vast liquid water reservoir.

(Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus, NASA)