Definition of "evaporation" []

• The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state. (noun)
• The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture. (noun)
• That which is evaporated; vapour. (noun)

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• "Warm air can hold more H2O than cold, so you get more evaporation from the oceans and to a lesser extent, the ground."
• "If this then led to more evaporation from the oceans, causing increased cloud cover, this could be a feedback, because clouds have a number of effects: they reflect more sunlight back into space (because they are whiter than the land and ocean surfaces they cover) and they trap more of the surface heat (because water vapour is a strong greenhouse gas)."
• "They based their predictions on one million-acre feet a year deficit of the Colorado River, massive amounts of evaporation from the lake and the viscous effects of a warming world from climate change."