Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the form of gas; gaseous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Gaseous; aëriform.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a form of gas; gaseous.
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- adjective Having the form of a
gas ;gaseous
Etymologies
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Examples
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But if we consider hydrogen as a gasiform metal, we naturally arrive at the conclusion that _water is the hydroxide of this gasiform metal_, that is _hydrogen hydroxide_, while gaseous hydrochloric and hydrosulphuric acids would be looked upon as respectively the chloride and the sulphide of the metal hydrogen.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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From these ideas the general one naturally suggested to us is -- a former stage in the frame of material things, perhaps only a point in progress from some other, or a return from one like the present -- universal space occupied with gasiform matter.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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_relations_, and the _motions_, of all the heavenly bodies, may be accounted for by supposing a previous state of matter, fluid or gasiform, subject only to the law of gravitation.
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws James Buchanan 1837
fbharjo commented on the word gasiform
an oxymoron being formed?
April 9, 2011