evaporative adjective & noun. [ɪ'vap(ǝ)rǝtɪv] LME.
[Late Latin evaporativus, formed as EVAPORATE verb: see -IVE.]
A. adjective. Producing evaporation; employing or produced by evaporation. LME.
evaporative cooling: produced by the evaporation of a liquid.
B. noun. A medicine that supposedly drew out bodily humours as vapour. Only in LME.

■ evaporatively adverb M20.

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