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Noun evaporation has 2 senses
  1. 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
    Derived forms: verb evaporate2, verb evaporate3
  2. 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
    Derived form: verb evaporate1
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