condensation

English

Etymology

From condense +‎ -ation, borrowed from Latin condēnsātiō, condēnsātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑn.dɛnˈseɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

condensation (countable and uncountable, plural condensations)

1. The act or process of condensing or of being condensed
2. The state of being condensed.
   • 1962 October, Cecil J. Allen, Ian Allan, “New Reading on Railways: Great Western”, in Modern Railways, 2s 6d., unnumbered page:

     This is a masterly work of condensation, omitting nothing of importance and providing a most readable book that for a modest half-crown is incredibly good value.

3. (physics, physical chemistry) The conversion of a gas to a liquid.
4. The condensate so formed.
5. (chemistry) The reaction of two substances with the simultaneous loss of water or other small molecule.

   Synonym: dehydration synthesis

   Antonym: hydrolysis

6. (psychology) when a single idea (an image, memory, or thought) or dream object stands for several associations and ideas.
7. A condensed work; an abridged version or compendium.
   • 1982 April 17, Beth Cookson, “Gaay Students Prominent At Med Association Meeting”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

     LGPIM has […] loaned the 45-minute condensation of Word is Out to over 16 medical schools.

8. (graph theory, countable) For a given directed graph G, a directed acyclic graph with one vertex for each strongly connected component of G, and an edge connecting pairs of components that contain the two endpoints of at least one edge in G.

Derived terms

• aldol condensation
• anticondensation
• autocondensation
• Claisen condensation
• cocondensation
• condensational
• condensation point
• condensation product
• condensation reaction
• condensation trail
• contrail
• cricondentherm
• cryocondensation
• cyclocondensation
• Darzens condensation
• decondensation
• Dieckmann condensation
• Dodgson condensation
• Doebner condensation
• evapocondensation
• hypercondensation
• Knoevenagel condensation
• noncondensation
• overcondensation
• pericondensation
• photocondensation
• polycondensation
• quasicondensation
• recondensation
• selfcondensation
• supercondensation
• Ullmann condensation
• ultracondensation

 

Translations

the act or process

• Afrikaans: kondensasie
• Bulgarian: сгъстяване (bg) n (sgǎstjavane), уплътняване n (uplǎtnjavane)
• Catalan: condensació f
• Danish: kondensation ?
• Dutch: condensatie (nl) f
• Finnish: tiivistäminen (fi), kondensointi (of condensing); tiivistyminen (fi), kondensoituminen (of being condensed)
• French: condensation (fr) f
• German: Kondensation f
• Hawaiian: kōkaha
• Icelandic: þétting f
• Irish: comhdhlúthú m
• Italian: condensazione (it) f
• Japanese: 凝縮 (ja) (ぎょうしゅく, gyōshuku)
• Latin: condēnsātiō f
• Malay: pemeluwapan, kondensasi (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kondensasjon m, kondensering m or f

  Nynorsk: kondensasjon m, kondensering f

• Persian: چگالش (fa) (čegâleš), میعان (fa) (maya'ân)
• Polish: kondensacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: condensação (pt) f
• Romanian: condensare (ro) f
• Russian: сгуще́ние (ru) n (sguščénije), уплотне́ние (ru) n (uplotnénije)
• Spanish: condensación (es) f
• Swedish: kondensation (sv) c
• Vietnamese: sự ngưng tụ

state

• Finnish: kondensaatio
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kondens m

  Nynorsk: kondens m

• Polish: kondensacja (pl) f

physics: conversion of a gas to a liquid

• Bulgarian: втечняване n (vtečnjavane)
• Catalan: condensació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凝結 / 凝结 (zh) (níngjié)

• Dutch: condensatie (nl) f
• Finnish: tiivistyminen (fi), kondensoituminen
• French: condensation (fr) f
• German: Kondensation f
• Greek: συμπύκνωση (el) f (sympýknosi)
• Hawaiian: kōkaha
• Indonesian: kondensasi (id)
• Italian: condensazione (it) f
• Japanese: 結露 (ja) (ketsuro)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kondensasjon m

  Nynorsk: kondensasjon m

• Polish: skraplanie (pl) n, kondensacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: condensação (pt) f
• Russian: конденса́ция (ru) f (kondɛnsácija)
• Spanish: condensación (es) f
• Swedish: kondensation (sv) c, kondensering (sv) c
• Tagalog: sakintay

condensate — see condensate

chemistry, the reaction of two substances with the simultaneous loss of water

• Bulgarian: кондензация f (kondenzacija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 縮合 / 缩合 (zh) (suōhé)

• French: déshydratation (fr) f, condensation (fr) f
• Japanese: 縮合 (ja) (しゅくごう, shukugō)
• Malay: kondensasi (ms)
• Polish: kondensacja (pl) f
• Russian: конденса́ция (ru) f (kondɛnsácija)

Anagrams

• nonsonicated

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin condēnsātiōnem. Equivalent to condenser +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -jɔ̃
• Homophone: condensations

Noun

condensation f (plural condensations)

1. (all senses) condensation

Related terms

• condenser

Further reading

• “condensation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.