VAPORIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vaporization mean? 

• VAPORIZATION (noun)
  The noun VAPORIZATION has 2 senses:

1. annihilation by vaporizing something

2. the process of becoming a vapor

  Familiarity information: VAPORIZATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VAPORIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annihilation by vaporizing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

vaporisation; vaporization

Hypernyms ("vaporization" is a kind of...):

annihilation; obliteration (destruction by annihilating something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The process of becoming a vapor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour

Hypernyms ("vaporization" is a kind of...):

phase change; phase transition; physical change; state change (a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vaporization"):

boiling (the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas)

clouding; clouding up (the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky)

smoke; smoking (a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion)

Derivation:

vaporize (lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue)

vaporize (turn into gas)

 Context examples 

A device designed either to drive a volatile solvent from a material or to cause vaporization within a heating/cooling system.

(Evaporator Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Buckyballs, named because they resemble the geodesic domes built by architect Buckminster Fuller, were discovered in 1985 among the byproducts of laser vaporization of graphite in which the carbon atoms are arranged in sheets.

(Buckyball, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Running modelling to see how this magnesium (and other elements) could have vanished, the team calculated something almost unbelievable: up to 40 percent of the mass of Earth could have evaporated in repeated episodes of vaporization as the planet forged in fire.

(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)