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Noun evaporation has 2 senses
- vaporization, vaporisation, vapor, vapour, evaporation - the process of becoming a vapor
--1 is a kind of phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change
--1 has particulars: boiling; clouding, clouding up; smoke, smoking
- dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation - the process of extracting moisture
--2 is a kind of extraction
--2 is a part of plastination
--2 has particulars: freeze-drying, lyophilization, lyophilisation; inspissation
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