condensation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: condensation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for condensation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
condensation n (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold Synonym(s): condensation, condensate the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling" Synonym(s): compression, condensation, contraction a shortened version of a written work Synonym(s): condensation, abridgement, abridgment, capsule the act of increasing the density of something Synonym(s): condensing, condensation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Condensation \Con`densa"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.