[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/evaporation.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / evaporation

[← E](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/E/)

# evaporation

«evaporation» in Mova's school dictionary: **when a liquid, usually water, slowly turns into a gas…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (evaporation, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Evaporation is when a liquid, usually water, slowly turns into a gas (vapour) and goes into the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporation/#m1)

2) Evaporation can mean something slowly disappearing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, evaporation is a change of state from liquid to gas; it happens faster when it is warm, windy, and the surface is wide. It is part of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation (clouds), precipitation (rain), collection. Evaporation separates dissolved salt from water: the water leaves, the salt stays. Sweating cools you by evaporation. Phrases: the water cycle, rate of evaporation, evaporation and condensation.

### examples

- Puddles disappear because of evaporation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporation/#x1)
- Evaporation is faster on a hot, windy day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporation/#x2)
- Evaporation is part of the water cycle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporation/#x3)
- Salt is left behind after evaporation of sea water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporation/#x4)
- Evaporation of sweat cools your skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporation/#x5)
- We measured evaporation from two dishes of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporation/#x6)

### note

Verb: evaporate. Evaporation is the opposite of condensation (gas to liquid). Evaporation is not boiling: it happens at the surface at any temperature; boiling happens all through the liquid at 100 °C for water. Uncountable.

### In the corpora

- [Evaporation happens at the surface of a liquid at any temperature, when the fastest particles escape as vapour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing/6/)
- [Evaporation is a liquid turning into a gas at its surface, and it happens below the boiling point.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/13-evaporation-condensation/7/)
- [Warmth, wind, dry air and a large surface all make evaporation faster.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/13-evaporation-condensation/8/)
- [Evaporation cools what is left behind, because the fastest particles leave.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/13-evaporation-condensation/9/)
- [Evaporation lifts water from seas, lakes and soil into the air.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/14-the-water-cycle/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «evaporation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evaporation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.