English Explanatory Dictionary

condensation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act or process of condensing or of being condensed
  2. The state of being condensed.
  3. The conversion of a gas to a liquid.
  4. The accumulation of water due to contact between the air's water vapour and a cold surface such as a glass, window, wall, etc.
  5. The condensate so formed.
  6. The reaction of two substances with the simultaneous loss of water or other small molecule.
  7. when a single idea (an image, memory, or thought) or dream object stands for several associations and ideas.
  8. A condensed work; an abridged version or compendium.
  9. For a given directed graph G, a directed acyclic graph with one vertex for each strongly connected component of G, and an edge connecting pairs of components that contain the two endpoints of at least one edge in G.

Pronunciation

/ˌkɒn.dɛnˈseɪ.ʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-condensation.wav /kənˌɖɛnˌse.ʃən/

Word forms

condensation condensations

Etymology

From condense + -ation, borrowed from Latin condēnsātiō, condēnsātiōnem.

Synonyms

dehydration synthesis

Antonyms

hydrolysis

Derived words

aldol condensation anticondensation autocondensation Claisen condensation cocondensation condensational condensation point condensation product condensation reaction condensation trail contrail cricondentherm cryocondensation cyclocondensation Darzens condensation decondensation Dieckmann condensation Dodgson condensation Doebner condensation evapocondensation hypercondensation Knoevenagel condensation noncondensation overcondensation pericondensation photocondensation polycondensation quasicondensation recondensation selfcondensation supercondensation Ullmann condensation ultracondensation

Translations

Bulgarian: втечняване Catalan: condensació Chinese Mandarin: 凝結 /凝结 Dutch: condensatie Finnish: tiivistyminen Finnish: kondensoituminen French: condensation German: Kondensation Greek: συμπύκνωση Hawaiian: kōkaha Indonesian: kondensasi Italian: condensazione Japanese: 結露 Norwegian Bokmål: kondensasjon Norwegian Nynorsk: kondensasjon Polish: skraplanie Polish: kondensacja Portuguese: condensação Russian: конденса́ция Spanish: condensación Swedish: kondensation Swedish: kondensering Tagalog: sakintay
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