COOLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cooling mean? 

• COOLING (noun)
  The noun COOLING has 2 senses:

1. the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature

2. a mechanism for keeping something cool

  Familiarity information: COOLING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

chilling; cooling; temperature reduction

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

temperature change (a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes)

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

freeze; freezing (the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid)

heat dissipation (dissipation of heat)

infrigidation; refrigeration (the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes)

Derivation:

cool (loose heat)

cool (make cool or cooler)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A mechanism for keeping something cool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cooling; cooling system

Context example:

the cooling was overhead fans

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

mechanism (device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function)

Meronyms (parts of "cooling"):

water pump (the pump in the cooling system of an automobile that cause the water to circulate)

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

air conditioner; air conditioning (a system that keeps air cool and dry)

coolant system (a cooling system that uses a fluid to transfer heat from one place to another)

cooling tower (a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant)

evaporative cooler (a cooling system that cools by evaporation)

refrigeration system (a cooling system for chilling or freezing (usually for preservative purposes))

Derivation:

cool (make cool or cooler)

 Context examples 

This cooling process takes about 30 years, and then come the storms.

(Study Explains Saturn's Epic Tantrums, NASA)

This information is essential to better understand the physical processes involved in the heating and cooling processes on Io.

(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)

Researchers found that thermokarst basins switched from a net radiative warming to a net cooling climate effect about 5,000 years ago.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

Microtubules in renal cells from mouse kidneys showed improved structural integrity after cooling and rewarming.

(Researchers develop “hibernation in a dish” to study how animals adapt to the cold, National Institutes of Health)

However, the presence of hydrogen led to a faster cooling of the shock-heated gas, trapping nitric oxide, the precursor of nitrate, at elevated temperatures where its yield was higher.

(Asteroids, Hydrogen Make Great Recipe for Life on Mars, NASA)

Unlike greenhouse gases, which contribute to warming, these fine particles can have a cooling effect.

(Estimating how pollen particles in the atmosphere influence climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists have long believed that the moon has gone through epochs of cooling and warming, as methane is depleted by solar-driven chemistry and then resupplied.

(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)

Then Villarrica went back to sleep, its crater filled with a pool of slowly cooling lava.

(Listen to the pulse of an erupting volcano, NSF)

This active faulting is consistent with the recent finding that Mercury’s global magnetic field has existed for billions of years and with the slow cooling of Mercury’s still hot outer core.

(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)

Due to the large surface to volume ratio, cooling is more efficient, allowing use of higher voltages.

(Capillary Electrophoresis, NCI Thesaurus)