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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gaseous \Gas"e*ous\ (? or ?; 277), a. [From {Gas}. Cf F.
gazeux.]
1. In the form or of the nature, of gas, or of an
a["e]riform fluid.
2. Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous. ``Unconnected,
gaseous information.'' --Sir J. Stephen.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
gaseous
adj : existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is
water is the gaseous state" [ant: {solid}, {liquid}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
gaseous adj Deserving of being {gas}sed. Disseminated by
Geoff Goodfellow while at SRI; became particularly popular after the
Moscone-Milk killings in San Francisco, when it was learned that the
defendant Dan White (a politician who had supported Proposition 7) would
get the gas chamber under Proposition 7 if convicted of first-degree
murder (he was eventually convicted of manslaughter).
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