Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To put out (a fire, for example); extinguish.
- transitive verb To suppress; squelch.
- transitive verb To slake; satisfy.
- transitive verb To cool (hot metal) by thrusting into water or other liquid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of quenching or extinguishing; also, the state of being extinguished.
- To extinguish or put out, as fire.
- To extinguish or allay; stop; put an end to, as thirst.
- To relieve the thirst of.
- To suppress; stifle; check; repress; destroy: as, to
quench a passion or emotion. - To lay or place in water, as a heated iron. See
temper . - To be extinguished; go out.
- To lose zeal; cool; become cool.
- noun A pit or cavity in which water can be thrown upon hot coke just manufactured in an oven, so as to cool it and leach out the soluble sulphur elements.
- To produce a series of crusts on (molten metal), each being taken off as soon as it is formed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions
- transitive verb To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.
- intransitive verb rare To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
satisfy , especially an actual or figurativethirst . - verb transitive To
extinguish orput out (as a fire or light.) - verb transitive To
cool rapidly by dipping into abath ofcoolant , as a blacksmith quenching hot iron. - noun physics The
abnormal termination of operation of asuperconducting magnet , occurring when part of the superconductingcoil enters the normal (resistive ) state.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb suppress or crush completely
- verb cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid
- verb put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
- verb reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
- verb satisfy (thirst)
- verb electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In addition, superconductivity was not particularly well understood at the time, especially the effects that would cause a magnet to dramatically and suddenly lose its superconducting powers, a phenomenon known as a "quench" that is invariably accompanied by a loud bang and a scurry to find the exit as the magnetic energy is suddenly dissipated.
Tevatron collider falls silent today after 26 years of smash hits 2011
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Coke comes out of the ovens at more than 1,000 degrees and goes to what's called a "quench tower" to be drenched with thousands of gallons of water.
The Center for Public Integrity: Where regulators failed, citizens took action -- testing their own air The Center for Public Integrity 2011
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But through an innovative use of a laboratory tool called a quench-flow machine-a machine that allows for extreme precision in the stopping, or "quenching," of a reaction-the team was able to look at what was going on over intervals of just 10 milliseconds in both yeast and human proteins.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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A quench occurs when part of a magnet heats up, causing its superconducting properties to be lost.
Rocket News 2009
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But through an innovative use of a laboratory tool called a quench-flow machine-a machine that allows for extreme precision in the stopping, or "quenching," of a reaction-the team was able to look at what was going on over intervals of just 10 milliseconds in both yeast and human proteins.
Media Newswire 2009
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But through an innovative use of a laboratory tool called a quench-flow machine-a machine that allows for extreme precision in the stopping, or "quenching," of a reaction-the team was able to look at what was going on over intervals of just 10 milliseconds in both yeast and human proteins.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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But through an innovative use of a laboratory tool called a quench-flow machine-a machine that allows for extreme precision in the stopping, or "quenching," of a reaction-the team was able to look at what was going on over intervals of just 10 milliseconds in both yeast and human proteins.
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The failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100C.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2008
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A quench occurs when part of a superconducting magnet heats up and becomes resistant to electrical current; the magnet essentially starts to lose its superconducting properties.
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On Friday, a failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100C.
addendumb commented on the word quench
rapid cooling of a solid to lock it into a metastable crystal structure by preventing low-temperature processes, e.g. phase transformations
September 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word quench
Or, what I do with my thirst when I drink water. ;-)
September 9, 2007
trivet commented on the word quench
I'm a slaker, me...
September 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word quench
Ooooh, trivet's hardcore. ;-)
September 9, 2007