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verb

Condense v. t. (past & past part. condensed; pres. part. condensing)

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. "In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure." "The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation."

(Chem. & Physics) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.

Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of sugar) for preservation and transportation.

Condensing engine, a steam engine in which the steam is condensed after having exerted its force on the piston.

Synonyms: To compress; contract; crowd; thicken; concentrate; abridge; epitomize; reduce.

Condense v. i.

To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form. "Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit."

(Chem.)

(a)

To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.

(b)

To undergo polymerization.

adjective

Condense adj. Condensed; compact; dense. (R.) "The huge condense bodies of planets."

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"Condense" Quotes from Famous Books

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— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw

... evaporation, for during the period when the ground is covered with snow, the proportion of clear dry weather favorable to evaporation is less than that of humid days with an atmosphere in a condition to yield up its moisture to any bibulous substance cold enough to condense it. [Footnote: The hard snow-crust, which in the early spring is a source of such keen enjoyment to the children and youth of the North—and to many older persons in whom the love of nature has kept awake a relish ...

— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

... rain following up the sun in its northward passage. The atmosphere, at this time and place, was heated and rarefied by the vertical rays of the sun; that produced a vacuum, which the cold airs of the south taking advantage of, rush up to fill, and with their coldness condense the heated vapours drawn up daily from the ocean and precipitate them back again on the earth below. This occurring and continually repeating day by day, for a certain time, nearly in the same place, fills the air with electric excitement, which causes thunder and ...

— What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile • John Hanning Speke

... I have endeavoured to condense into a connected story the facts learnt piecemeal from Sir John in conversation. To a certain extent they supplied, if not an explanation, at least an account of the change that had come over my friend. But only to a certain extent; there the explanation ...

— The Lost Stradivarius • John Meade Falkner

... one. All buttoned-up men are weighty. All buttoned-up men are believed in. Whether or no the reserved and never-exercised power of unbuttoning, fascinates mankind; whether or no wisdom is supposed to condense and augment when buttoned up, and to evaporate when unbuttoned; it is certain that the man to whom importance is accorded is the buttoned-up man. Mr Tite Barnacle never would have passed for half his current value, unless his ...

— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

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