Intumescence
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解釋/意思:
(noun.) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water).
(noun.) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion).
整理:尼古拉斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
(n.) Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.
巴顿整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Swelling.
編輯:罗德里克
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Swelling, protuberance, turgescence
ANT:Subsidence, evenness, attenuation, concavity
盖尔校對
解釋/意思:
n. the action of swelling: a swelling: a tumid state.—v.i. Intumesce′ to swell up.
錄入:麦克唐纳