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WATER VAPOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Water in a vaporous form diffused in the atmosphere but below boiling temperature
Synonyms:
water vapor; water vapour
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("water vapor" is a kind of...):
vapor; vapour (a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water vapor"):
spray (water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall)
Holonyms ("water vapor" is a substance of...):
cloud (a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude)
Context examples:
The heat from the Sun causes some of the dirty snow to vaporize, creating the fuzzy halo or "coma" of water vapor, dust and ice grains seen in comet images.
(Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans, NASA)
Issue associated with the visibility of water vapor in the immediate atmosphere in which the device is being used.
(Fogging in Medical Device Environment, Food and Drug Administration)
Conditions should be even more favorable at higher latitudes, where colder temperatures and more water vapor can result in higher relative humidity more often.
(Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case for Brine, NASA)
The team investigated a wide variety of possible mechanisms that may have caused the ejection events and narrowed the list to three candidates: meteoroid impacts, thermal stress fracturing and released water vapor.
(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)
When airborne dust heats up, it creates updrafts that carry gases along with it, including the small quantity of water vapor sometimes seen as wispy clouds on Mars.
(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)
Powerful hydrothermal vents eject material from Enceladus' core, which mixes with water from the moon's massive subsurface ocean before it is released into space as water vapor and ice grains.
(New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains, NASA)
In some cases, such as in the Amazon rainforest, that water vapor can jumpstart precipitation.
(How trees affect the weather, National Science Foundation)
This is important because methane is the third most common greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, after water vapor and carbon dioxide.
(Alaska Shows No Signs of Rising Arctic Methane, NASA)
The amount of water vapor in the air of a living space.
(Housing Humidity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Scientists believe that most of the water that goes down at a trench comes back into the atmosphere as water vapor when volcanoes erupt.
(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)
