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FREEZE-DRYING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does freeze-drying mean?
• FREEZE-DRYING (noun)
The noun FREEZE-DRYING has 1 sense:
1. a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes
Familiarity information: FREEZE-DRYING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
freeze-drying; lyophilisation; lyophilization
Hypernyms ("freeze-drying" is a kind of...):
dehydration; desiccation; drying up; evaporation (the process of extracting moisture)
freeze; freezing (the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid)
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