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    VAPORIZATION

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Annihilation by vaporizing somethingplay

    Synonyms:

    vaporisation; vaporization

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

    annihilation; obliteration (destruction by annihilating something)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    The process of becoming a vaporplay

    Synonyms:

    evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural processes

    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)

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