Associations to the word «Evaporative»

Wiktionary

EVAPORATIVE, adjective. Of, pertaining to, producing, or produced by evaporation.
EVAPORATIVE COOLING, noun. (physics) The cooling of a liquid due to the removal of the faster-moving molecules by evaporation from its surface

Dictionary definition

EVAPORATIVE, adjective. Relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation; "an evaporative cooler".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats