vaporizer

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noun

Such a device to facilitate vaping.

“Their Fordson was equipped with a vaporizer.”

Similar
vapevaporiser
OriginEnglish vaporiz(e) ← Middle English vapour ← Old French vapor →
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Meanings

nounvaporizer (plural vaporizers)

plural vaporizers · alternative UK vaporiser · alternative UK vapouriser · alternative British English Oxford vapourizer

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

      Vaporizers are used in electronic cigarettes to simulate smoke.

      Synonyms: vape

    2. medicineA medical device for administering medicine via inhalation. 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.
    3. historical except museologicallyA device that heated viscous liquid motor fuel, especially tractor vaporising oil, to enable an engine to run on it.

      Their Fordson was equipped with a vaporizer.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSuch a device to facilitate vaping.

Similar
vape

More synonyms by meaning

nouna device that puts out a substance in the form of a vapor (especially for medicinal inhalation)

Similar
vaporiser
Broader
device
Also see
electronic cigarettevape

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*kwapōs
  2. Latinvapor
  3. Old Frenchvapeur
  4. Old Frenchvapor
  5. Middle Englishvapour
  6. Englishvapor
  7. Englishvaporiz(e)
  8. Englishvaporizer

From vaporiz(e) + -er.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Bulgarian изпари́тел
  • изпари́тел (izparítel)heating element device
Catalan vaporitzador
  • vaporitzadordevice
Esperanto vaporigilo
  • vaporigilodevice
Polish waporyzator, waporyzator
  • waporyzatorheating element device
  • waporyzatordevice
Portuguese vaporizador
  • vaporizadorheating element device
Russian испари́тель
  • испари́тель (isparítelʹ)heating element device
Spanish vaporizador, vaporizador
  • vaporizadorheating element device
  • vaporizadordevice
Cite this entry
APA

vaporizer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vaporizer

MLA

“vaporizer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vaporizer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vaporizer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vaporizer.

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