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vapouriser

vapouriser is the alternative form of vaporizer.

Meaning of vaporizer

Noun

vaporizer (plural vaporizers)

  1. Such a device to facilitate vaping.
    • Vaporizers are used in electronic cigarettes to simulate smoke.
    Synonyms:
    vape
  2. A medical device for administering medicine via inhalation. 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.
  3. (historical except museologically) A device that heated viscous liquid motor fuel, especially tractor vaporising oil, to enable an engine to run on it.
    • Their Fordson was equipped with a vaporizer.

Forms of vapouriser

pluralvapourisers

Origin of vapouriser

From vapourise + -er.

Questions about vapouriser

What is vapouriser the alternative form of?
Vapouriser is the alternative form of vaporizer.

Words near vapouriser in the dictionary

  1. vapourisable
  2. vapourisation
  3. vapourisations
  4. vapourise
  5. vapourised
  6. vapouriser
  7. vapourisers
  8. vapourises
  9. vapourish
  10. vapourishness
  11. vapourising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vapouriser (page history and authors); vaporizer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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