avolation
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin āvolātiō (“flying away”), or formed directly from avolate + -ation.
Noun edit
avolation (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Evaporation; dissipation into the air.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXII:
- Now, this to me, seems not likely to proceed from any other cause than the avolation of the juice through the skin […].