Definition of Gaseous

1. Adjective. Existing as or having characteristics of a gas. "Steam is water is the gaseous state"


Definition of Gaseous

1. a. In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aëriform fluid.

Definition of Gaseous

1. Adjective. Relating to, or existing as, gas. ¹

2. Adjective. Of a liquid containing bubbles: gassy. ¹

3. Adjective. Tenuous or indefinite. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gaseous

1. pertaining to gas [adj]

Medical Definition of Gaseous

1. Of the nature of gas. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaseous

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gasbags
gascon
gasconade
gasconaded
gasconader
gasconaders
gasconades
gasconading
gascons
gascoynes
gaseities
gaseity
gaselier
gaseliers
gaseous (current term)
gaseous mediastinography
gaseous nebula
gaseous phase
gaseous pulse
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gaseousness
gaseousnesses
gases
gasface
gasfield
gasfields
gasfired
gasfitter
gasfitters

Literary usage of Gaseous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"growth of a gaseous spheroid of the Laplacian type, or it might possibly be developed from a ... Planetesimal condition arising from a gaseous spheroid. ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The products of combustion, after cooling down, can easily be determined by analysis, and •re then either (a) wholly gaseous, as for chloride or iodide of ..."

3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Planetesimal condition arising from a gaseous spheroid.—If the parent nebula were a gaseous spheroid, as assume* 1 by Laplace, and were to detach material ..."

4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"growth of a gaseous spheroid of the Laplacian type, or it might possibly be developed from a ... Planetesimal condition arising from a gaseous spheroid. ..."

5. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum, Thomas Cooper (1814)
"gaseous OXYD OF CARBON. PART XXII. With the true nature of it we have been only ... gaseous oxyd of carbon forms an intermediate substance between the pure ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
"With these objects in view, we undertook, at the suggestion of Professor Galloway, the examination and estimation of the gaseous constituents in the Vartry ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"That fluorescence may be due to other causes is not negatived by this assertion. 3. Preliminary Note on some Electric Furnace Reactions under High gaseous ..."

8. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"growth of a gaseous spheroid of the Laplacian type, or it might possibly be developed from a ... Planetesimal condition arising from a gaseous spheroid. ..."

9. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The products of combustion, after cooling down, can easily be determined by analysis, and •re then either (a) wholly gaseous, as for chloride or iodide of ..."

10. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Planetesimal condition arising from a gaseous spheroid.—If the parent nebula were a gaseous spheroid, as assume* 1 by Laplace, and were to detach material ..."

11. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"growth of a gaseous spheroid of the Laplacian type, or it might possibly be developed from a ... Planetesimal condition arising from a gaseous spheroid. ..."

12. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum, Thomas Cooper (1814)
"gaseous OXYD OF CARBON. PART XXII. With the true nature of it we have been only ... gaseous oxyd of carbon forms an intermediate substance between the pure ..."

13. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
"With these objects in view, we undertook, at the suggestion of Professor Galloway, the examination and estimation of the gaseous constituents in the Vartry ..."

14. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"That fluorescence may be due to other causes is not negatived by this assertion. 3. Preliminary Note on some Electric Furnace Reactions under High gaseous ..."

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