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(psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol
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condensation
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Condensation is the change of the physical state of matter from gas phase into liquid phase , and is the reverse of evaporation . The word most often refers to the water cycle. It can also be defined as the change in the state of water vapour to liquid ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed 2 (context physics English) The conversion of a gas to a liquid; the condensate so formed 3 (context chemistry English) The reaction of two substances with the simultaneous ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold [syn: condensate ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Condensation \Con`den*sa"tion\, n. [L. condensatio: cf. F. condensation.] The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "action of becoming more dense," from Latin condensationem (nominative condensatio ), noun of action from condensare (see condense ). Meaning "conversion of a gas to a liquid" is from 1610s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB cause ▪ It's said tenants cause condensation , by boiling kettles. ▪ This is caused by condensation in the air which moves upwards as the temperature at lower altitudes rises. ▪ It also causes less condensation than ...
Usage examples of condensation.
Then he and Cray retreated behind a ceramic baffle while Berith spread itself behind the frame, chilling it and the web until clouds of condensation began to form around them.
Kara wiped condensation from the inside of her window, turning to get a last look at the Camelia Apartments.
Looking at the question, now, in its generality, and referring to the first movements of the atoms towards mass-constitution, we find that heterogeneousness, brought about directly through condensation, is proportional with it forever.
Condensation had beaded on the fuel tank of the Kawasaki, so that it looked like some sort of frosted confection in the streetlight.
The rounded sides were wet with condensation which poured across the paintwork and misted the dials, while the watchkeepers and unemployed men sweated in much the same fashion.
I have run a computer check of every possible downside event, from suspected cannibals and a verified biting-death, to foot-rot from boot condensation.
As it cools still further, there appear in it definite condensations, and the beginnings of the planets are there.
Condensation confuses different holons because they share similar communions.
A large sack with shoulder-straps rested at his feet, along with two stoppered gourds glittering with condensation.
UNSA arctic jacket, quilted over-trousers, and snowboots, Hunt stood in the center of a small group of muffled figures stamping their feet and breathing frosty clouds of condensation into the air on the concrete apron of McClusky Air Force Base, situated in the foothills of the Baird Mountains one hundred miles inside the Arctic Circle.
From the conditions given, it follows that the plant cannot possibly get these substances elsewhere than out of the surrounding atmosphere, and that in drawing upon them it submits them to a high degree of condensation.
D U S T T 0 D U S T 55 Pierce frowned at that and made a task of wiping imaginary condensation off the soapstone counter.
Cyrus Harding had only one operation to make, to calcine the sulphate of iron crystals in a closed vase, so that the sulphuric acid should distil in vapor, which vapor, by condensation, would produce the acid.
We kept the blow-torches burning, returned the battery to the stove, removed and cleaned the plugs, eased the frozen brushes in the generator, stripped and removed the petrol lines, thawed them and sucked out the frozen condensation by mouth, scraped away the ice from the carburettor intake and returned everything in place.
Deckheads dripped constantly and the condensation on the bulkheads sent a thousand little rivulets to pool on the corticene floor.