condensation
condensation Lexical Profile
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• noun
The physical process by which a gas or vapor cools and transforms into a liquid; the droplets of moisture formed on a cold surface through this process.
"The cold glass of lemonade quickly became covered in beads of condensation on the humid summer afternoon."
The action of making a text, speech, or artistic work more concise, or a shortened version resulting from such a process.
"The magazine published a readable condensation of the historian's massive three-volume biography."
A chemical reaction in which two or more molecules combine to form a larger molecule, typically accompanied by the loss of a small molecule such as water.
"Polyesters are synthesized in the laboratory through a step-growth condensation reaction between diols and dicarboxylic acids."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 17th century from Late Latin condensationem, a noun of action from the past participle stem of Latin condensare ('to make very thick or dense'), from com- (intensive prefix) and densare ('to make thick'), from densus ('thick, dense').