'Condensation' definitions:
Definition of 'condensation'
(from WordNet)
noun
(psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams
noun
The process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state
noun
Atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold [syn: condensation, condensate]
noun
The process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling" [syn: compression, condensation, contraction]
noun
noun
The act of increasing the density of something [syn: condensing, condensation]
Definition of 'Condensation'
From: GCIDE
- Condensation \Con`den*sa"tion\, n. [L. condensatio: cf. F. condensation.]
- 1. The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. [1913 Webster]
- He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (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. [1913 Webster]
- Condensation product (Chem.), a substance obtained by the polymerization of one substance, or by the union of two or more, with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
- Surface condensation, the system of condensing steam by contact with cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'condensation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviation,
- abbreviature,
- abrege,
- abridgment,
- abstract,
- accelerando,
- acceleration,
- accretion,
- adherence,
- adhesion,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggravation,
- apocope,
- astriction,
- astringency,
- beefing-up,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- bottleneck,
- breviary,
- brief,
- capsule,
- cervix,
- circumscription,
- cling,
- clinging,
- clotting,
- clumping,
- clustering,
- coagulation,
- coarctation,
- coherence,
- cohesion,
- cohesiveness,
- compactedness,
- compaction,
- compend,
- compression,
- compressure,
- concentration,
- concretion,
- condensed version,
- congealment,
- congelation,
- conglobation,
- conglomeration,
- consolidation,
- conspectus,
- constriction,
- constringency,
- contraction,
- contracture,
- curtailment,
- decrease,
- deepening,
- densification,
- digest,
- diminuendo,
- distillation,
- draft,
- dribble,
- drip,
- dripping,
- drop,
- elision,
- ellipsis,
- enhancement,
- epitome,
- exacerbation,
- exaggeration,
- explosion,
- foreshortening,
- hardening,
- head,
- heating-up,
- heightening,
- hourglass,
- hourglass figure,
- information explosion,
- inseparability,
- intensification,
- isthmus,
- junction,
- knitting,
- leaching,
- lixiviation,
- magnification,
- narrow place,
- narrowing,
- neck,
- outline,
- overview,
- pandect,
- percolation,
- pickup,
- population explosion,
- precis,
- puckering,
- pursing,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- redoubling,
- reduction,
- reinforcement,
- retrenchment,
- review,
- rubric,
- seepage,
- seeping,
- set,
- shortened version,
- shortening,
- skeleton,
- sketch,
- solidification,
- speedup,
- spurtle,
- step-up,
- sticking,
- stranglement,
- strangulation,
- strengthening,
- striction,
- stricture,
- summary,
- summation,
- survey,
- sweating,
- syllabus,
- syncope,
- synopsis,
- systole,
- telescoping,
- thumbnail sketch,
- tightening,
- topical outline,
- trickle,
- tricklet,
- truncation,
- wasp waist,
- wrinkling
Words containing 'Condensation'
- Condensability,
- Condensable,
- Condensate,
- Condensated,
- Condensating,
- Condensative,
- Condense,
- Condensed,
- Condenser,
- Condensible,
- Condensing,
- Achromatic condenser,
- Condensation product,
- Condensed milk,
- Condensing electroscope,
- Condensing engine,
- Ejector condenser,
- Injection condenser,
- Siphon condenser,
- Spray condenser,
- Surface condensation,
- Surface condenser,
- abbe condenser,
- bypass condenser,
- condensation pump,
- condensation trail,
- condenser microphone,
- electrical condenser,
- electrolytic condenser,
- heat of condensation,
- liebig condenser,
- optical condenser,
- reflux condenser,
- Bull's-eye condenser