How do you use Transpiration in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like activity or action, plus the exact meaning.
Transpiration meaning
- The loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied by a corresponding uptake from the roots.
- The process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes.
- The passage of gases through fine tubes.
Synonyms of Transpiration
Using Transpiration
- The main meaning on this page is: The loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied by a corresponding uptake from the roots. | The process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes. | The passage of gases through fine tubes.
- Useful related words include: activity, natural process, natural action, action.
- In the example corpus, transpiration often appears in combinations such as: and transpiration, transpiration and, the transpiration.
Context around Transpiration
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Transpiration
- In this selection, "transpiration" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, water, allow, via, contribute, per and begin stand out and add context to how "transpiration" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and allow transpiration to begin and because transpiration takes place. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "transpiration" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with transpiration
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Evaporation and transpiration contribute to the precipitation over land. (9 words)
Place a daisy in each glass and let the transpiration begin. (11 words)
Over land, evaporation and transpiration contribute another 72 Tt per year. (11 words)
From this, he calculated the transpiration per leaf, then per tree, multiplied this by the number of possible trees per hectare and concluded that each day a hectare of these trees pumped 36 cubic metres of water into the atmosphere. (40 words)
As trees are lost, researchers say there is a risk that large swathes of the forest could transition to savannah as they lose the ability to make their own rainfall via evaporation and transpiration from plants. (36 words)
At that suction the plant cannot sustain its water needs as water is still being lost from the plant by transpiration; the plant's turgidity is lost, and it wilts. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
From this, he calculated the transpiration per leaf, then per tree, multiplied this by the number of possible trees per hectare and concluded that each day a hectare of these trees pumped 36 cubic metres of water into the atmosphere.
Place a daisy in each glass and let the transpiration begin.
As trees are lost, researchers say there is a risk that large swathes of the forest could transition to savannah as they lose the ability to make their own rainfall via evaporation and transpiration from plants.
Water is sent up to the leaves where it is lost through transpiration and photosynthesis.
On hot, calm days when there is not a lot of wind, that transpiration, or sweat decreases.
Paton calculated that a square metre of crops adjacent to the greenhouse would have required eight litres of water per day to offset what they lost in transpiration.
At that suction the plant cannot sustain its water needs as water is still being lost from the plant by transpiration; the plant's turgidity is lost, and it wilts.
Because transpiration takes place during the cooler, more humid night hours, water loss is significantly reduced.
By this means, plants can continue to take up nutrients even at night, when water is only slowly absorbed into the roots as transpiration has almost stopped.
During transpiration or evaporation, this latent heat is removed from surface liquid, cooling the earth's surface.
Evaporation and transpiration contribute to the precipitation over land.
Interpretation is not the meaning of the verse—rather it transpires through that meaning, in a special sort of transpiration.
It is also used to replace water lost during transpiration and photosynthesis.
Most of the available water is used in transpiration to pull nutrients into the plant.
Osmotic absorption becomes more important during times of low water transpiration caused by lower temperatures (for example at night) or high humidity.
Over land, evaporation and transpiration contribute another 72 Tt per year.
Root pressure is highest in the morning before the stomata open and allow transpiration to begin.
The adaptation of evergreen needles limits the water lost due to transpiration and their dark green color increases their absorption of sunlight.
The endodermis can also provide an upwards pressure, forcing water out of the roots when transpiration is not enough of a driver.
The majority is ultimately lost via transpiration, while evaporation from the soil surface is also substantial.
Common combinations with transpiration
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and transpiration 4×
- transpiration and 3×
- the transpiration 2×
- transpiration from 2×
- transpiration or 2×
- in transpiration 2×
- by transpiration 2×
- during transpiration 2×
- transpiration contribute 2×
- transpiration to 2×