Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: aqueous
IPA transcription: ['eɪkwiəs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: aqueous
    Meaning: similar to or containing or dissolved in water; "aqueous solutions"
Usage examples
  • Some of them again have been metamorphosed by fire, so that their organic remains have been destroyed, and the traces of their aqueous origin almost obliterated.
  • But still, to the eye of the geologist, all are of aqueous or sedimentary origin: roughly speaking, one may say they were all deposited at the bottom of some ancient sea.
  • There are but few days in summer when there is not a haze in the atmosphere, although we call the sky clear, which intensifies the light and gives everything a warmer tone. The heat coming from a full moon on a clear night is absorbed in causing the aqueous vapors that are partly condensed in the higher regions of the atmosphere, to be reabsorbed into transparent vapor.