GASEOUS STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gaseous state mean? 

• GASEOUS STATE (noun)
  The noun GASEOUS STATE has 1 sense:

1. the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container

  Familiarity information: GASEOUS STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASEOUS STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

gas; gaseous state

Hypernyms ("gaseous state" is a kind of...):

state; state of matter ((chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container))

 Context examples 

A fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely.

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