Condensation
noun
The process by which water vapor in the air becomes liquid water.
When you take a hot shower, condensation often forms on the mirror.
Often appears as...
- condensation forms
- condensation on windows
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Technical
noun
The act of making something shorter or smaller, especially a text or speech.
She wrote a condensation of the 800-page book.
Often appears as...
- condensation of the text
- literary condensation
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Academic
noun
In physical chemistry, it is the process of converting a vapor into a liquid or a solid state.
The science experiment demonstrated condensation by cooling gas until it became a liquid.
Often appears as...
- condensation reaction
- condensation temperature
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Technical
noun
In psychoanalysis, the combination of two or more ideas, feelings, or characteristics into one symbol, especially in dreams.
The dream of a flying ship could be a condensation of the desire for freedom and adventure.
Often appears as...
- psychoanalytic condensation
- dream condensation
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Academic
noun
The process by which water vapor in the air becomes liquid water.
When you take a hot shower, condensation often forms on the mirror.
Often appears as...
- condensation forms
- condensation on windows
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The act of making something shorter or smaller, especially a text or speech.
She wrote a condensation of the 800-page book.
Often appears as...
- condensation of the text
- literary condensation
Usage tips
Academic
noun
In physical chemistry, it is the process of converting a vapor into a liquid or a solid state.
The science experiment demonstrated condensation by cooling gas until it became a liquid.
Often appears as...
- condensation reaction
- condensation temperature
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In psychoanalysis, the combination of two or more ideas, feelings, or characteristics into one symbol, especially in dreams.
The dream of a flying ship could be a condensation of the desire for freedom and adventure.
Often appears as...
- psychoanalytic condensation
- dream condensation
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Related
Often used in meteorology, to describe moisture on surfaces like grass.
You'll notice early morning condensation on the lawn.
Pro Tip 2/3Everyday Observation
Common in daily life, like water droplets on cold drinks.
The glass of iced tea had condensation on its surface.
Pro Tip 3/3Visibility Hindrance
Can be a nuisance by obscuring vision, like on eyeglasses or windows.
He wiped condensation off his glasses to see better.
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Related
Often used in meteorology, to describe moisture on surfaces like grass.
You'll notice early morning condensation on the lawn.
Pro Tip 2/3Everyday Observation
Common in daily life, like water droplets on cold drinks.
The glass of iced tea had condensation on its surface.
Pro Tip 3/3Visibility Hindrance
Can be a nuisance by obscuring vision, like on eyeglasses or windows.
He wiped condensation off his glasses to see better.
Pro Tip 1/3Weather Related
Often used in meteorology, to describe moisture on surfaces like grass.
You'll notice early morning condensation on the lawn.
Pro Tip 2/3Everyday Observation
Common in daily life, like water droplets on cold drinks.
The glass of iced tea had condensation on its surface.
Pro Tip 3/3Visibility Hindrance
Can be a nuisance by obscuring vision, like on eyeglasses or windows.
He wiped condensation off his glasses to see better.
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Antonio Donato Nobre:...
The blue sea has clean air above it and forms pretty few clouds; there's almost no rain there. The green ocean has the same clean air, but forms a lot of rain. What is happening here that is different? The forest emits smells, and these smells are condensation nuclei, which form drops in the atmosphere.
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than they otherwise would have. Because with that beautiful photo, maybe I can also package this little box here that talks about how steaming and boiling actually take different amounts of time. Steaming ought to be faster. It turns out it isn't because of something called film condensation,
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How do tornadoes form? -...
Any storm is formed when condensation occurs, the byproducts of the clouds. Condensation releases heat, and heat becomes the energy that drives huge upward drafts of air. The more condensation and the bigger the storm clouds grow, the more powerful those updrafts become.
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Expanding your mind with...
condensation of our imaginations of concerns McKenna we live inside of the outpourings of our mind and we fly in planes and have technologically mediated telepathy with our smartphones as amber case talks about I mean and yet we quickly fall into the film of
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Magnus Larsson: Turning...
habitable spaces inside of the sand dunes. If people live inside of the green barrier they can help support the trees, protect them from humans, and from some of the forces of nature. Inside of the dunes we find shade. We can start harvesting condensation,
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What is the coldest...
like Bose-Einstein condensation, in which atoms are cooled almost to absolute zero and become a rare new state of matter. So as researchers continue in their quest to understand the laws of physics and unravel the mysteries of the universe,
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Vietnam's Infinite Cave...
much fog I didn't reckon with that and yeah I had to somehow live with that because they always always some sort of condensation and it was tricky to get some clear view especially here in the entrance there was a lot of condensation
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Reuben Margolin:...
Did you know that's a continuous sheet of cloud that's dipping in and out of the condensation layer? What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?
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Tornadoes 101 PIPE National...
until it reaches the clouds. To create a supercell tornado, an updraft lifts the rolling pipe of wind upward until it stands upright. Then it pulls condensation from the skies and into the spinning vortex.
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My Life As an Adventure...
I am wearing five jackets, in this picture, and the condensation from my breath, because it was so cold outside, created this awesome ice beard in my hair, and I couldn't pull it apart, until it melted,
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Antonio Donato Nobre:...
The blue sea has clean air above it and forms pretty few clouds; there's almost no rain there. The green ocean has the same clean air, but forms a lot of rain. What is happening here that is different? The forest emits smells, and these smells are condensation nuclei, which form drops in the atmosphere.
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Nathan Myhrvold: Cut...
than they otherwise would have. Because with that beautiful photo, maybe I can also package this little box here that talks about how steaming and boiling actually take different amounts of time. Steaming ought to be faster. It turns out it isn't because of something called film condensation,
Video examples
How do tornadoes form? -...
Any storm is formed when condensation occurs, the byproducts of the clouds. Condensation releases heat, and heat becomes the energy that drives huge upward drafts of air. The more condensation and the bigger the storm clouds grow, the more powerful those updrafts become.
Video examples
Expanding your mind with...
condensation of our imaginations of concerns McKenna we live inside of the outpourings of our mind and we fly in planes and have technologically mediated telepathy with our smartphones as amber case talks about I mean and yet we quickly fall into the film of
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Magnus Larsson: Turning...
habitable spaces inside of the sand dunes. If people live inside of the green barrier they can help support the trees, protect them from humans, and from some of the forces of nature. Inside of the dunes we find shade. We can start harvesting condensation,
Video examples
What is the coldest...
like Bose-Einstein condensation, in which atoms are cooled almost to absolute zero and become a rare new state of matter. So as researchers continue in their quest to understand the laws of physics and unravel the mysteries of the universe,
Video examples
Vietnam's Infinite Cave...
much fog I didn't reckon with that and yeah I had to somehow live with that because they always always some sort of condensation and it was tricky to get some clear view especially here in the entrance there was a lot of condensation
Video examples
Reuben Margolin:...
Did you know that's a continuous sheet of cloud that's dipping in and out of the condensation layer? What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?
Video examples
Tornadoes 101 PIPE National...
until it reaches the clouds. To create a supercell tornado, an updraft lifts the rolling pipe of wind upward until it stands upright. Then it pulls condensation from the skies and into the spinning vortex.
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My Life As an Adventure...
I am wearing five jackets, in this picture, and the condensation from my breath, because it was so cold outside, created this awesome ice beard in my hair, and I couldn't pull it apart, until it melted,
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G. Willow Wilson
American Writer
We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
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Joseph Pulitzer
American Publisher
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
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Arthur Miller
American Playwright
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
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Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian Writer
In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.
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Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.
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Walter Mosley
American Novelist
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
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G. Willow Wilson
American Writer
We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
Quote examples
Joseph Pulitzer
American Publisher
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
Quote examples
Arthur Miller
American Playwright
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Quote examples
Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian Writer
In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.
Quote examples
Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.
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Walter Mosley
American Novelist
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
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