aeriform
Americanadjective
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having the form or nature of air; gaseous.
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unsubstantial; unreal.
adjective
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having the form of air; gaseous
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unsubstantial
Etymology
Origin of aeriform
Example Sentences
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These aeriform songs rarely involve drums, which makes them feel timeless, at least in the short term.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
Here, the aeriform melodies at his back feel so beautiful, the brutality of his words vanishes in the breeze.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2022
At first sight some relationship seems to exist between the concept 'element' in this older sense and the modern view of the different states of material aggregation, solid, liquid, aeriform.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst
The solid surface of the earth has two envelopes, one liquid, and the other aeriform.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von
Arguing thus, Priestley, of course, named the new aeriform substance dephlogisticated air, and thought of it as ordinary air deprived of some, or it might be all, of its phlogiston.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
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