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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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