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avolation

avolation noun: evaporation; dissipation into the air.

Noun

avolation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Evaporation; dissipation into the air.
    • Now, this to me, seems not likely to proceed from any other cause than the avolation of the juice through the skin […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXII

Origin of avolation

Borrowed from Latin āvolātiō (“flying away”), or formed directly from avolate + -ation.

Questions about avolation

What does avolation mean?
Avolation means evaporation; dissipation into the air.
What part of speech is avolation?
Avolation is a noun.

Words near avolation in the dictionary

  1. avoking
  2. avolate
  3. avolated
  4. avolates
  5. avolating
  6. avolation
  7. avolatte
  8. avolattes
  9. avolition
  10. avolitional
  11. Avometer

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