Evaporation The change of state from a liquid to a gas, the change by which any substance is converted from a liquid state and carried off as a vapor, the process of liquid water becoming water vapor from water surfaces, land surfaces and snow fields, (see condensation , sublimation , vapourization , transpiration , evapotranspiration , volatilization ).
(any substance; is converted; from a liquid state)
any substance
is converted
from a liquid state