CONDENSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does condensing mean? 

• CONDENSING (noun)
  The noun CONDENSING has 1 sense:

1. the act of increasing the density of something

  Familiarity information: CONDENSING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDENSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of increasing the density of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

condensation; condensing

Hypernyms ("condensing" is a kind of...):

compressing; compression (applying pressure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "condensing"):

inspissation; thickening (the act of thickening)

Derivation:

condense (develop due to condensation)

condense (cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid)

condense (remove water from)

 Context examples 

Derived by boiling impure water and condensing the resultant steam in a sterile container, distilled water has been shown to kill bladder cancer cells in vitro through osmotic lysis (cytolysis)

(Distilled Water, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists think this bright material could be predominantly methane that has condensed as ice onto the peaks from Pluto's atmosphere, like water in Earth's atmosphere, condensing as frost at high altitude.

(Methane Snow on Pluto’s Peaks, NASA)

Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io has a thin atmosphere that collapses in the shadow of Jupiter, condensing as ice, according to a new study by NASA-funded researchers.

(New Research Reveals Fluctuating Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon, NASA)

The identified organics first dissolved in the ocean of Enceladus, then evaporated from the water surface before condensing and freezing onto ice grains inside the fractures in the moon's crust, scientists found.

(New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains, NASA)

The act, process, or result of pressing together, flattening, or condensing, particularly, increasing an external physical pressure on a body structure.

(Compression, NCI Thesaurus)

A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes, my comrade’s impatient and active nature could endure this drab existence no longer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some were condensing air into a dry tangible substance, by extracting the nitre, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate; others softening marble, for pillows and pin-cushions; others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse, to preserve them from foundering.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)