Condensation
[kɒnden'seɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑndɛn'seʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams.
(noun.) a shortened version of a written work.
(noun.) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold.
(noun.) the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state.
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Definition
(n.) The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
(n.) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.
(n.) A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Compression.[2]. Reduction, abridgment, contraction.
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Examples
- If the air is near saturation and the temperature is falling, it is safe to predict bad weather, because the fall of temperature will probably cause rapid condensation, and hence rain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When this vapor meets a cold wind or is chilled in any way, condensation takes place, and a mass of tiny drops of water or of small particles of snow is formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Experiment shows not only that vapor gives out heat during condensation, but that the amount of heat thus set free is exactly equal to the amount absorbed during vaporization. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The temperature at which air is saturated and condensation begins is called the _dew point_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Do we know the limit of condensation air is capable of? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Most of us have at times profited by the heat of condensation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the high pressure engines there is no condensation of the exhaust steam, but it is discharged directly into the air, and this type was originally called puffers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The pulse of condensation and rarefaction which travels the length of the wire is called a wave, although it bears little or no resemblance to the familiar water wave. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the condensation heat was developed, and in re-expansion it was rendered latent. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Sound waves may be said to consist of a series of condensations and rarefactions, and the distance between two consecutive condensations and rarefactions may be defined as the wave length. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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