AIR-CONDITIONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does air-conditioned mean? 

• AIR-CONDITIONED (adjective)
  The adjective AIR-CONDITIONED has 1 sense:

1. cooled by air conditioning

  Familiarity information: AIR-CONDITIONED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIR-CONDITIONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooled by air conditioning

Similar:

cool (neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat)

 Context examples 

And while air-conditioned rooms can hold higher levels of carbon dioxide, which can have a negative impact on cognition, the students slept better in a cooler room.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

The indoor temperature of the non-air-conditioned dorm averaged 26.3 C (79.3 F) compared with 21.4 C (70.5 F) in the dorm with air-conditioning.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

New research shows that heat can affect even healthy young adults intellectually, with worse cognitive performance observed in students who slept in a non-air-conditioned room during a heat wave.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)