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3 definitions found 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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