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refrigeration
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "act of cooling or freezing," from Latin refrigerationem (nominative refrigeratio ) "a cooling, mitigation of heat," especially in sickness, noun of action from past participle stem of refrigerare "to cool down," from re- "again" (see re- ) + ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refrigeration \Re*frig`er*a"tion\ (-?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]frig['e]ration, L. refrigeratio.] The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Refrigeration is a process of moving heat from one location to another in controlled conditions. The work of heat transport is traditionally driven by mechanical work , but can also be driven by heat, magnetism , electricity , laser , or other means. Refrigeration ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it. 2 The process of preserving something by cooling. 3 (context medicine English) The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes [syn: infrigidation ] deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes; "refrigeration by immersing the patient's body in a cold bath"
Usage examples of refrigeration.
Once Beryla and her lover left the lab, Hael Sejm went to the refrigeration unit and removed thirty-two vials of antitoxin, placing them on a tray with just that many syringes.
LeJong sat down behind her desk and stared at the remaining vials of antitoxin in the refrigeration unit.
An hour later, another medivac arrived from Landfall, this one with refrigeration chests.
And that was in the days of the old morgue, before refrigeration existed, when there was only a trinkle of cold water from a faucet running over each corpse!
But worst of all, the rise of modern refrigeration and long-range shipping turned local apples into a novelty, not a necessity.
He released Clio and started poking around in the refrigeration hatch for something to eat.
The log was routine stuff: ice melt rate, fissure and fracture estimate, linear meters of refrigeration shaft excavated and filled, condition of the Flettner sails, harness, towing cables, and Ultravac sealing, personnel changes, sick list, and the like.
Among much else, he suggested the method that led directly to the invention of refrigeration, devised the scale of absolute temperature that still bears his name, invented the boosting devices that allowed telegrams to be sent across oceans, and made innumerable improvements to shipping and navigation, from the invention of a popular marine compass to the creation of the first depth sounder.
Steergard felt that their position in perihelial orbit was the safest and maneuvered so that the ship would remain above Zeta, using the heat to power its own refrigeration.
They located the ancient elevator shafts and dropped through them into the subcellars filled with electric installations, heat plants and refrigeration systems.
The workings of the multi-stage refrigeration made a rushing sound beneath his feet.
They might not be provided a bountiful living the year round, but the marvellous refrigeration and cooking systems on the floaters made large accumulations possible at the harvest seasons.
They were biological engineers rather than scientists, their main concern being to improve the strains of their meat-producing and wool-bearing animals, descended in the main from the spermatozoa and ova which Lode Jumbukas did all colonisation vessels of her periodhad carried under refrigeration.
It will be chewier than that made at sea level, but proper refrigeration will maintain a good candy texture.
The cloth covered army canteen soaked in water and the handy water jug of the eastern harvest field wrapped in a wet blanket are familiar examples of an ineffectual attempt at refrigeration by evaporation.