| BTPS | at body temperature and ambient pressure, and saturated with water vapor [gas] |
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| PH2O | partial pressure of water vapor |
| STPD | a volume of gas at standard temperature and pressure that contains no water vapor |
| vap | vapor |
| VD | vapor density; vascular disease; vasodilation, vasodilator; venereal disease; venous dilatation; ven... |
| anaesthetic vapor | The gaseous phase of a liquid anaesthetic with sufficient partial pressure at room temperature to produce general anaesthesia when inhaled. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| vapor | To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid. Alternative forms: vapour] "He'd laugh to see one throw his heart away, Another, sighing, vapor forth his soul." (B. Jonson) 1. <physics> Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid. The term vapor is sometimes used in a more extended sense, as identical with gas; and the difference between the two is not so much one of kind as of degree, the latter being applied to all permanently elastic fluids except atmospheric air, the former to those elastic fluids which lose that condition at ordinary temperatures. The atmosphere contains more or less vapor of water, a portion of which, on a reduction of temperature, becomes condensed into liquid water in the form of rain or dew. The vapor of water produced by boiling, especially in its economic relations, is called steam. "Vapor is any substance in the gaseous condition at the maximum of density consistent with that condition. This is the strict and proper meaning of the word vapor." (Nichol) 2. In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc. "The vapour which that fro the earth glood [glided]" (Chaucer) "Fire and hail; snow and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word." (Ps. Cxlviii. 8) 3. Wind; flatulence. 4. Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. "For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." (James iv. 14) 5. An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues. "A fit of vapors." 6. <pharmacology> A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor. Vapor bath. A bath in vapor; the application of vapor to the body, or part of it, in a close place; also, the place itself. <chemistry> The relative weight of gases and vapors as compared with some specific standard, usually hydrogen, but sometimes air. The vapor density of gases and vaporizable substances as compared with hydrogen, when multiplied by two, or when compared with air and multiplied by 28.8, gives the molecular weight. Vapor engine, an engine worked by the expansive force of a vapor, especially. A vapor other than steam. Origin: OE. Vapour, OF. Vapour, vapor, vapeur, F. Vapeur, L. Vapor; probably for cvapor, and akin to Gr. Smoke, to breathe forth, Lith. Kvepti to breathe, smell, Russ. Kopote fine soot. Cf. Vapid Alternative forms: vapour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vapor density | The mass per unit volume of a vapor; since the vapor density changes with temperature and pressure, it is commonly expressed as a specific gravity, i.e., the weight of the vapor divided by the weight of an equal volume of a reference gas (e.g., oxygen or hydrogen) at the same temperature and pressure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vapor pressure | The partial pressure exerted by the vapor phase of a liquid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mercury vapor lamp | A lamp in which the electric arc is in an ionised mercury vapor atmosphere; it produces ultraviolet light that can be used therapeutically or in diagnostic photometry. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bite stick | <dentistry> A device the orthodontist uses to help put on your bands. The orthodontist puts the band in place, then asks you to bite down on the bite stick to help push the band in place. (08 Jan 1998) |
| maul-stick | A stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working. Alternative forms: mahl-stick. Origin: G. Malerstock; maler a painter + stock stick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mouth stick | A prosthesis which is held by the teeth and utilised by handicapped persons to perform such actions as typing, painting, and lifting small objects. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stick | 1. A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber. "Withered sticks to gather, which might serve Against a winter's day." (Milton) 2. Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick. 3. Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax. 4. A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick. 5. A composing stick. See Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc, one made of wood is used. 6. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab. A stick of eels, twenty-five eels. Stick chimney, a chimney made of sticks laid crosswise, and cemented with clay or mud, as in some log houses. <zoology> Stick insect,, any one of various species of wingless orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidae, which have a long round body, resembling a stick in form and colour, and long legs, which are often held rigidly in such positions as to make them resemble small twigs. They thus imitate the branches and twigs of the trees on which they live. The common American species is Diapheromera femorata. Some of the Asiatic species are more than a foot long. To cut one's stick, or To cut stick, to run away. Origin: OE. Sticke, AS. Sticca; akin to stician to stab, prick, pierce, G. Stecken a stick, staff, OHG. Steccho, Icel. Stik a stick. See Stick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stick-seed | <botany> A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stick-tight | <botany> Beggar's ticks. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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