condensation Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams
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noun the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state
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noun atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold
condensate.
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noun the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
compression; contraction.
- the contraction of a gas on cooling
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noun a shortened version of a written work
capsule; abridgement; abridgment.
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noun the act of increasing the density of something
condensing.
WordNet
Con`den*sa"tion noun
Etymology
L.Definitions
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The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay.
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(Physics) 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. -
(Chem.) 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.