Condensation vs. Fog — What's the Difference?

Condensation is the change of the physical state of matter from the gas phase into the liquid phase, and is the reverse of vaporization. The word most often refers to the water cycle.

Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling stratus, and is heavily influenced by nearby bodies of water, topography, and wind conditions.

Water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it

A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures or restricts visibility (to a greater extent than mist; strictly, reducing visibility to below 1 km)

The conversion of a vapour or gas to a liquid

A state or cause of perplexity or confusion

A concise version of something, especially a text

The grass which grows in a field after a crop of hay has been taken.

The act of condensing.

(with reference to a glass surface) cover or become covered with steam

The state of being condensed.

Bewilder or puzzle

An abridgment or shortening of something, especially of a written work or speech.

Spray with an insecticide.

The process by which a gas or vapor changes to a liquid.

Condensed water vapor in cloudlike masses lying close to the ground and limiting visibility.

The liquid so formed.

An obscuring haze, as of atmospheric dust or smoke.

(Chemistry) A chemical reaction in which water or another simple substance is released by the combination of two or more molecules.

A mist or film clouding a surface, as of a window, lens, or mirror.

(Psychology) In psychoanalytic theory, the process by which a single symbol or word is associated with the emotional content of several, not necessarily related, ideas, feelings, memories, or impulses, especially as expressed in dreams.

A cloud of vaporized liquid, especially a chemical spray used in fighting fires.

The act or process of condensing or of being condensed

A state of mental vagueness or bewilderment.

The state of being condensed.

Something that obscures or conceals; a haze

(physics) The conversion of a gas to a liquid.

A blur on a developed photographic image.

The condensate so formed.

A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.

(chemistry) The reaction of two substances with the simultaneous loss of water or other small molecule.

Tall, coarse grass left standing in fields through the winter.

(psychology) when a single idea (an image, memory, or thought) or dream object stands for several associations and ideas.

To cover or envelop with fog.

The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.

To cause to be obscured; cloud.

The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.

To make vague, hazy, or confused

A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene.

To obscure or dim (a photographic image).

(psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams

To be covered with fog.

The process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state

To be blurred, clouded, or obscured

Atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold

To be dimmed or obscured. Used of a photographic image.

The process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together;

(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. mist, haze.}}

A shortened version of a written work

(uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.

The act of increasing the density of something

A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.

(photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.

(computer graphics) Distance fog.

A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.

Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.

(Scotland) Moss.

(intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.

(intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.

To become dim or obscure.

To make dim or obscure.

To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.

(transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.

(transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.

(transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.

(transitive) To make confusing or obscure.

To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

(transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).

(intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.

A second growth of grass; aftergrass.

Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud.

A state of mental confusion.

Cloudiness or partial opacity of those parts of a developed film or a photograph which should be clear.

To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.

To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

To render semiopaque or cloudy, as a negative film, by exposure to stray light, too long an exposure to the developer, etc.

To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground

An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

Confusion characterized by lack of clarity

Make less visible or unclear;