vaporific
English
Etymology
vapor + -ific
Adjective
vaporific (comparative more vaporific, superlative most vaporific)
- (chemistry) Producing vapour; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor.
- Volatile fluids are vaporific.
- Heat is a vaporific agent.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vaporific in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)