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Condenser   /kəndˈɛnsər/   Listen
noun
Condenser  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, condenses.
2.
(Physic)
(a)
An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape.
(b)
An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate.
(c)
A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object.
3.
(Chem.) An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.
4.
(Steam Engine) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air.
Achromatic condenser (Optics), an achromatic lens used as a condenser.
Bull's-eye condenser, or Bull's-eye (Optics), a lens of short focal distance used for concentrating rays of light.
Injection condenser, a vessel in which steam is condensed by the direct contact of water.
Surface condenser, an apparatus for condensing steam, especially the exhaust of a steam engine, by bringing it into contact with metallic surface cooled by water or air.






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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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