Hypertext Webster Gateway: "condensation"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled
master of the arts of selection and condensation.
--Macaulay.

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.

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.

{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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

condensation
n 1: (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or
images combine into a single symbol; especially in
dreams
2: the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid
state
3: atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold
[syn: {condensate}]
4: the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed
together: "the contraction of a gas on cooling" [syn: {compression},
{contraction}]
5: a shortened version of a written work [syn: {abridgement}, {abridgment},
{capsule}]
6: the act of increasing the density of something [syn: {condensing}]


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