Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to or involving evaporation: Describes something that pertains to the process of a liquid turning into vapor.
   • Causing or promoting evaporation: Describes something that has the property or function of causing a liquid to evaporate.
   • Resulting from or characterized by evaporation: Describes a state or effect produced by the process of evaporation.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The desert climate is highly evaporative, causing rapid water loss from the soil.
  • An evaporative cooler uses the heat in the air to turn water into vapor, thereby cooling the surrounding air.
  • The evaporative rate of the solvent was measured in the laboratory.

Advanced Usage

• "Evaporative cooling": A physical process where evaporation of a liquid removes heat from a surface or the surrounding air.
  • Swimming pools rely on evaporative cooling to lower the water temperature on hot days.
• "Evaporative loss": The loss of a substance, typically a liquid, due to evaporation.
  • To minimize evaporative loss, the chemical was stored in a sealed container.

Variants and Related Words

• Evaporate (verb): To change from a liquid to a vapor.
  • The puddle will evaporate in the sun.
• Evaporation (noun): The process of a liquid turning into a vapor.
  • The evaporation of seawater leaves behind salt.
• Evaporator (noun): A device or apparatus in which evaporation is carried out.
  • The refrigerator's evaporator coil removes heat from the interior.

Synonyms

• Vaporizing: Turning into vapor.
• Volatilizing (technical): Causing to evaporate rapidly.

Related Phrases

• Evaporative emission: (Technical/Environmental) The release of vapor from fuels or chemicals into the atmosphere.
  • The car's system is designed to reduce evaporative emissions.
• Evaporative capacity: The rate or potential at which a substance can evaporate under given conditions.
  • The evaporative capacity of the lake decreases in humid weather.

Adjective

1. relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation
   • an evaporative cooler