different between vapour vs cavitate
vapour
English
Noun
vapour (countable and uncountable, plural vapours)
- British standard spelling of vapor.
Verb
vapour (third-person singular simple present vapours, present participle vapouring, simple past and past participle vapoured)
- British standard spelling of vapor.
Middle English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vapour, from Latin vapor.
Alternative forms
- vapor, wapour, vapoure, vapur
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va??pu?r/, /va?pu?r/, /?va?pur/
Noun
vapour (plural vapours)
- Fumes or vapour; a visible gaseous emission:
- A visible vapour; steam
- The vapour of water; mist.
- Fumes given off by combustion; smoke.
- Heated air; air of a high temperature.
- (physiology) A noxious bodily fume believed to be the cause of maladies.
- (rare) A airborne smell; a nasal sensation transmitted via the air.
- (rare) Effect, emanation.
Related terms
- vapouren
Descendants
- English: vapour, vapor
- Scots: vapour
References
- “v??p?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-01.
Etymology 2
From Old French vaporer.
Verb
vapour
- Alternative form of vapouren
vapour From the web:
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cavitate
English
Verb
cavitate (third-person singular simple present cavitates, present participle cavitating, simple past and past participle cavitated)
- (sciences) To form vapour bubbles in a flowing liquid in a region where the pressure of the liquid falls below its vapour pressure.
Derived terms
- supercavitate
Related terms
- cavitation
Anagrams
- activate
Interlingua
Noun
cavitate (plural cavitates)
- cavity
Italian
Verb
cavitate
- second-person plural present indicative of cavitare
- second-person plural imperative of cavitare
- feminine plural of cavitato
Anagrams
- citavate
Latin
Noun
cavit?te
- ablative singular of cavit?s
Romanian
Etymology
From French cavité
Noun
cavitate f (plural cavit??i)
- cavity
Declension
cavitate From the web:
- cavitation means
- what does cavitation mean
- what does cavitate a pump mean
- what is cavitated blastocyst
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- what is cavitated film
- what are cavitated caries
- what does cavitate
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