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condensed

condensed \condensed\ adj.

  1. (Psychol) representing two or more ideas or emotions by a single symbol; as, a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas.

  2. shortened by rewriting with fewer words; -- used of texts; as, a condensed book. Opposite of unabridged.

    Syn: abridged.

  3. reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, condensed milk. Opposite of uncondensed.

    Syn: concentrated[5].

  4. narrower than usual for a particular height; -- of printers' type. Opposite of expanded.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
condensed

c.1600, "made more dense," past participle adjective from condense. Of literary works, from 1823. Condensed milk attested by 1863.

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condensed
  1. The state of having been condensed; highly concentrated. v

  2. (en-past of: condense)

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Usage examples of "condensed".

A heavy purplish vapor in the crucible condensed on the walls into black, flakey crystals.

These pellets combine the pure, concentrated, active principles of several vegetable alteratives, and the result is, that within the small compass of a few grains he has most happily blended and chemically condensed these properties so that their action upon the ANIMAL ECONOMY is sanative and universal.

But when the universe expanded and cooled the Higgs field condensed out, like a frost settling on blades of grass.

We remark the fact that in the higher of these agglomerations of condensed vapour, the clouds which float at an elevation of from twenty to thirty thousand feet or more, the masses are generally thin, and arranged more or less in a leaflike form, though even here a tendency to produce spherical clouds is apparent.

Even though the day outside was stunningly clear and bright, harsh sunlight spilling across the dark black of the nonskid on the flight deck, there was always the danger of icing as moisture from the air condensed on metal surfaces.

All knowledge can be put into a kind of pemican, so that we can have it condensed.

Do you remember that time you gave a Venusian guppy a can of condensed milk in exchange for a pinfire opal not as big as the city clock?

The salts of mercury are volatile, and, if heated with a reducing agent or some body capable of fixing the acid, metallic mercury is given off, which may be condensed and collected.

But this skin on this lady belly and hips put me in mind of that time Daddy take me to visit my granny in the town, how Granny put me on she knee and give me cocoa-tea to drink that she make by grating the cocoa and nutmeg into the hot milk, how Granny did wearing a brown velvet dress and I never touch velvet, before neither since, and I just sit there so on Granny knee, running my thumb across a little piece of she sleeve over and over again, drinking hot cocoa-tea with plenty condensed milk.

The mist hung in gray, ragged curtains from the fronds of the huge tree-ferns, condensed in clammy drops that spattered down to the apron from cranes and gantries, from the overhead structures of machines that still functioned, somehow, in spite of their being overgrown with densely intertwined creepers.

The halo is estimated to contain 100 to 1000 Earth masses condensed into many billion haloids moving in orbits up to 100,000 astronomical units from the Sun.

This heated air rose rapidly, as if against a mountainside and, rising, it cooled and the moisture in it condensed.

Herschel, since abundantly confirmed, that space is unusually vacant in the immediate neighborhood of condensed star-clusters and nebulæ, which, as far as it goes, might be taken as an indication that the assembled stars had been drawn together by their mutual attractions, and that the tendency to aggregation is still bringing new members toward the cluster.

A ship with such a drive could therefore neither take off from a planet itself, being too massive, nor by itself achieve the velocity at which the atoms falling into the intakes of the reactors condensed sufficiently for ignition.

Then Ryan hosed the control board with chem flames, filling the air with the reek of condensed fuel and propane.