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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
condensation
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 double glazing thanks to improved air flow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Condensation may develop on walls where moisture is a problem.
▪ Next came a 15-minute condensation of Mozart's "Don Giovanni."
▪ the condensation of steam into water
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Further condensation yields the inputs in table 9. 5.
▪ In houses particularly prone to condensation, you can cover walls with a thin layer of polystyrene before applying wallpaper.
▪ Keep this off the leaves, and turn it periodically to prevent condensation.
▪ Now check for damp, ventilation, condensation and for cracks in walls where they join the main building.
▪ Otherwise, impact scattering and condensation from impact vapour must be responsible for this uniformity.
▪ The wall where the condensation is occurring is too cold.
▪ Their advantages are: The frame members are good insulators, so condensation is not a problem.
▪ Tilt the condensation tray at one end to prevent the water droplets from falling on the leaves and spoiling them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Condensation

Condensation \Con`den*sa"tion\, n. [L. condensatio: cf. F. condensation.]

  1. 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.
    --Macaulay.

  2. (Physics) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.

  3. (Chem.) A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene.

    Condensation product (Chem.), a substance obtained by the polymerization of one substance, or by the union of two or more, with or without separation of some unimportant side products.

    Surface condensation, the system of condensing steam by contact with cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
condensation

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.

Wiktionary
condensation

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 loss of water or other small molecule

WordNet
condensation
  1. n. (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams

  2. the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state

  3. atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold [syn: condensate]

  4. the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling" [syn: compression, contraction]

  5. a shortened version of a written work [syn: abridgement, abridgment, capsule]

  6. the act of increasing the density of something [syn: condensing]

Wikipedia
Condensation

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 water when in contact with a liquid or solid surface or cloud condensation nuclei within the atmosphere. When the transition happens from the gaseous phase into the solid phase directly, the change is called deposition.

Condensation (psychology)

In Freudian psychology, a condensation is when a single idea (an image, memory, or thought) appropriates the whole charge of libido of at least two other ideas. The charges are displaced from the originating ideas to the receiving one, where they merge and "condense" together.

In the 1950s the concept was used by linguist Roman Jakobson in his influential lecture on metaphor and metonymy. Jakobson's lecture led Jacques Lacan to say that the unconscious is structured like a language.

Condensation (disambiguation)

Condensation or condensed may refer to:

  • Condensation, the change in matter of a substance to a denser phase
  • DNA condensation, the process of compacting DNA molecules
  • Cloud condensation nuclei, airborne particles required for cloud formation
  • Condensation (aerosol dynamics), a phase transition from gas to liquid
  • Condensation cloud, observable at large explosions in humid air
  • Condensation reaction, in chemistry, a chemical reaction between two molecules or moieties
  • Condensation algorithm, in computer science, a computer vision algorithm
  • Condensation (graph theory), in mathematics, a directed acyclic graph formed by contracting the strongly connected components of another graph
  • Dodgson condensation, in mathematics, a method of computing the determinants of square matrices
  • Condensed font, a typeface drawn narrower than normal width
  • Bose–Einstein condensation, a state of matter of a dilute gas in which quantum effects become apparent on a macroscopic scale
  • Condensation (psychology)

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.