English Explanatory Dictionary

vaporizer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A device with a heating element, used to vaporize a liquid.
  2. A device with a heating element, used to vaporize a liquid solution with medicine. The produced vapor condensates into fine aerosols, forming a mist inside the device, to be inhaled by the patient for delivery of the medicine into the lungs.

Word forms

vaporizer vaporizers vaporiser vapouriser vapourizer

Etymology

From vaporiz(e) + -er.

Translations

Bulgarian: изпари́тел Portuguese: vaporizador Russian: испари́тель Spanish: vaporizador Esperanto: vaporigilo
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