Meaning

3 senses
  1. A device with a heating element, used to vaporize a liquid.

    Such a device to facilitate vaping.

    Vaporizers are used in electronic cigarettes to simulate smoke.

  2. A medical device for administering medicine via inhalation. The produced vapor condensates into fine aerosols, forming a mist inside the device, to be inhaled by the patient for delivery of the medicine into the lungs.

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  3. A device that heated viscous liquid motor fuel, especially tractor vaporising oil, to enable an engine to run on it.

    Their Fordson was equipped with a vaporizer.

More definitions
  • a device that puts out a substance in the form of a vapor (especially for medicinal inhalation)

Examples

3 sentences
  1. My girlfriend is packing the vaporizer.

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  2. He "medicates" several times a day with a marijuana vaporizer.

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  3. It's Hanukkah weed. One nug lasted for eight days in the vaporizer.

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
heating element device:

Forms

plural: vaporizers

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a device that puts out a substance in the form of a vapor (especially for medicinal inhalation):vaporiser

See also

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