Refrigerant
[rɪ'frɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)nt] or [ri'frɪdʒərənt]
Definition
(noun.) any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator).
(adj.) causing cooling or freezing; 'a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide' .
Checked by Debbie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Cooling; allaying heat or fever.
(n.) That which makes to be cool or cold; specifically, a medicine or an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Refrigerative, cooling medicine.
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Definition
adj. making cold: cooling: refreshing.—n. that which cools.—v.t. Rēfrig′erāte to make cold: to cool: to refresh.—n. Rēfrigerā′tion.—adjs. Rēfrig′erātive Rēfrig′erātory cooling: refreshing.—ns. Rēfrig′erātor an apparatus for preserving food by keeping it at a low temperature: an ice-safe; Rēfrig′erātor-car a freight-car fitted for preserving meat &c. during transmission by means of cold; Rēfrig′erātory a cooler: a vessel or apparatus for cooling used in brewing &c.; Rēfrigē′rium (obs.) cooling refreshment.
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Examples
- There are two principal ways in which it may be utilized; one is to employ its enormous expansive force to produce mechanical power, and the other is as a refrigerant. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This dispenses with auxiliary refrigerants, and causes the expanding gases to supply the cold required for their own liquefaction by an entirely mechanical process. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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