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evaporative, a.|ɪˈvæpərətɪv|
[f. evaporate v. + -ive; cf. Fr. évaporatif, -ive, late L. ēvapōrātīv-us.]
a. Pertaining to or producing evaporation.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 341. 1823 Coleridge Rem. (1836) II. 371 The evaporation..froze the fluid at the two ends, that is, at a given distance from the greatest intensity of the evaporative process. 1887Pall Mall G. 7 Dec. 12/1 The average evaporative power of petroleum was found to be 9·82 lbs. of water per lb. of fuel.
b. evaporative cooling: the cooling (of an engine) in which the heat is removed by the evaporation of a liquid coolant.
1931A. H. R. Fedden in Handbk. Aeronaut. (R. Aeronaut. Soc.) vi. 450 The commonest methods of maintaining the cylinder temperatures within reasonable limits are by water cooling, air cooling, evaporative cooling and liquid cooling. 1934Aircraft Engineering Nov. 290/3 In a system working on the evaporative cooling principle the water is introduced into the engine jackets at..boiling point.
Add: Hence eˈvaporatively adv., by means of evaporation.
1959N. C. Harris Mod. Air Conditioning Pract. xvii. 353 Evaporatively cooled air is nearly saturated as it comes off the cooler. 1986J. R. Watt Evaporative Air Conditioning Handbk. (ed. 2) i. 5 Old homes and buildings in Iran are frequently cooled evaporatively. |