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Transpiration   Listen
noun
Transpiration  n.  
1.
(Physiol.) The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration.
2.
(bot.) The evaporation of water, or exhalation of aqueous vapor, from cells and masses of tissue.
3.
(Physics) The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Transpiration" Quotes from Famous Books



... impossible, and I turned to make an attempt to regain the Tarnaway side. I was at least thirty yards lower down than when I entered the stream, and the water was rushing and foaming all round me; another stagger nearly carried me off my feet, and, in the exertion to keep them, a thick transpiration rose upon my forehead, my ears began to sing, and my head to swim, while, disordered in their balance, the buck and the guns almost strangled me, I looked down the channel; the water was running in a white, ...
— The True Story Book • Andrew Lang



Words linked to "Transpiration" :   transpire, natural action, bodily process, activity, body process, biological process, bodily function, action, natural process, organic process



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