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Condenser   /kəndˈɛnsər/   Listen
Condenser

noun
1.
An electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge.  Synonyms: capacitance, capacitor, electrical condenser.
2.
An apparatus that converts vapor into liquid.
3.
A hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat.
4.
Lens used to concentrate light on an object.  Synonym: optical condenser.



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"Condenser" Quotes from Famous Books



... Arnold, still at work, "as you know, is divided into three parts, the source of power, the making and sending of wireless waves, including the key, spark, condenser and tuning coil, and the receiving apparatus—head telephones, antennae, ground and detector. This is a very compact system with facilities for a quick change from one wave length to another. It has a spark gap, quenched type, break system relay—operator can hear any ...
— The Romance of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve

... another that is movable, in order to take in what is on the sides and in the rear. I have both of those. But, in addition, I have the universal periscope, the eye that sees all around, three hundred and sixty degrees—a very clever application of an annular prism with objectives, condenser, and two eyepieces of low and ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

... writers of great, if not the highest, gifts, who otherwise would have lost themselves in a sea of diffusiveness, were forced to concentrate their feelings. The sonnet became for Italian literature a condenser of thoughts and emotions such as was possessed by the poetry of ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt

... bristle, the size and other characters are so closely similar that I hesitate to make a new species. The bristle is extremely delicate, scarcely thicker than a cilium, and easily overlooked, yet with proper focussing of the condenser I found it on ...
— Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole - Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 • Gary N. Galkins

... out of the owner's hands for the present," said the steam, slipping into the condenser. "You're left to your own devices till the ...
— McClure's Magazine, March, 1896, Vol. VI., No. 4. • Various


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