English-French translations for vapour

• vapeur
  La pression de vapeur est également mentionnée. Mention is also made of vapour pressure.
  J'ai voté en faveur du rapport sur la récupération des vapeurs d'essence. I voted for the report on petrol vapour recovery.
  Récupération des vapeurs d'essence lors du ravitaillement en carburant des véhicules à moteur ( Petrol vapour recovery during refuelling of motor vehicles (

Definition of vapour

• Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air
• The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid
• Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting
• Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder
• Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour
• To become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour
• To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster
• To emit vapour or fumes
• To give the vapours; to depress, to bore

Examples

• to vapour away a heated fluid

Related words

• vapours
• vapourise
• vapourer
• vapour bath
• vapour quality
• vapour valve
• mercury-vapour lamp
• water vapour
• fuel vapour canister