Evaporation vs. Transpiration — What's the Difference?

Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase. The surrounding gas must not be saturated with the evaporating substance.

Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers. Water is necessary for plants but only a small amount of water taken up by the roots is used for growth and metabolism.

The process of turning from liquid into vapour

The act or process of transpiring, especially through the stomata of plant tissue or the pores of the skin.

To convert or change into a vapor.

(botany) The loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied by a corresponding uptake from the roots.

To draw off in the form of vapor.

(physiology) The process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes.

To draw moisture from, as by heating, leaving only the dry solid portion.

The passage of gases through fine tubes.

To deposit (a metal) on a substrate by vacuum sublimation.

The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration.

To change into vapor.

The evaporation of water, or exhalation of aqueous vapor, from cells and masses of tissue.

To pass off in or as vapor.

The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.

To produce vapor.

The passage of gases through fine tubes because of differences in pressure or temperature

To disappear; vanish

The process of givng off or exhaling water vapor through the skin or mucous membranes

The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.

The emission of water vapor from the leaves of plants

The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.

(archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor.

The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.

The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.

That which is evaporated; vapor.

See Vaporization.

The process of becoming a vapor

The process of extracting moisture