"humidification" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: humidifications [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: humid + -ification Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|humid|ification}} humid + -ification Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} humidification (countable and uncountable, plural humidifications)
  1. The process of increasing the water vapour content of a gas. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (process): humidification [feminine] (French), humidificación [feminine] (Galician), Befeuchtung [feminine] (German), umidificazione [feminine] (Italian), 加湿 (kashitsu) (Japanese), humidificação [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), umidificação [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), humidificación [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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