Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The liquid resulting from condensation of a gas, such as a product of distillation or another method of separation.
- noun The part of a natural gas mixture that consists of volatile hydrocarbons and can be easily condensed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made dense; condensed; made more close or compact.
- To condense; make dense or more dense.
- To become more dense, close, or compact.
- noun The substance formed by condensation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made dense; condensed.
- transitive verb rare To condense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics A
liquid that is the product ofcondensation of agas - noun chemistry The product of a
condensation reaction - noun physics Any of various condensed
quantum states - verb To
condense .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a product of condensation
- noun atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They follow the evolution of a prototypical quantum object, a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), under free-fall conditions (see the figure, panel B).
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The floor drain is used for condensate from the evaporator coil on the air conditioner.
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The foul condensate is sent through a steam stripper, which removes the volatile organic substances in the water (they boil at a lower temperature than water).
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The stripped condensate is combined with the clean condensate for reuse.
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Continuing his work as a Ph.D. student, Markus Greiner used the unobscured optical access to load the Bose-Einstein condensate into a three-dimensional optical dipole force lattice potential formed at the intersection of three orthogonal far-detuned standing wave laser fields.
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A single quantum state, a Bose-Einstein condensate (red peak), forms in semiconductor material.
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The stripped condensate is combined with the clean condensate for reuse.
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The creation of a polariton Bose-Einstein condensate in the solid state provides scientists with a unique opportunity to better understand and possibly exploit the quantum effects that occur in these very special conditions.
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The foul condensate is sent through a steam stripper, which removes the volatile organic substances in the water (they boil at a lower temperature than water).
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