vaporizer

English

Alternative forms

• vaporiser (UK)
• vapouriser (UK)
• vapourizer

Etymology

From vaporize ‎ -er.

Noun

vaporizer (plural vaporizers)

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

   Vaporizers are used in electronic cigarettes to simulate smoke.

2. (medicine) A device with a heating element, used to vaporize a liquid solution with medicine. 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.

Coordinate terms

• vape, nebulizer

Translations

heating element device

• Bulgarian: изпари́тел m (izparítel)
• Portuguese: vaporizador m
• Russian: испари́тель (ru) m (isparítelʹ)
• Spanish: vaporizador (es) m

device

• Esperanto: vaporigilo
• Spanish: vaporizador (es) m