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- Condense - v. t. - To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
- Condense - v. t. - To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
- Condense - v. i. - To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
- Condense - v. i. - To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
- Condense - v. i. - To undergo polymerization.
- Condense - a. - Condensed; compact; dense.
- Condensed - imp. & p. p. - of Condense
- Condenser - n. - One who, or that which, condenses.
- Condenser - n. - An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape.
- Condenser - n. - An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate.
- Condenser - n. - A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object.
- Condenser - n. - An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.
- Condenser - n. - An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine.
- Air pump - - A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space.
- Still - v. t. - To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
- Recondense - v. t. - To condense again.
- Condense - v. t. - To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
- Ens - n. - Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence.
- Sublime - v. t. - To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify.