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Definition: CONGELATION |
CONGELATIONNoun1. That which is congealed. 2. The state of being congealed. 3. The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing. |
Date "CONGELATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
"CONGELATION" is a common misspelling or typo for: cancellation, coagulation, compellation, congregation. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Refrigeration | Noun: refrigeration, infrigidation, reduction of temperature; cooling. Verb: congelation, conglaciation; ice; solidification. (density); ice box (refrigerator). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CONGELATION |
| English words defined with "CONGELATION": Congealment, Conglaciation ♦ Frost smoke. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There is congelation in despair. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
congelation | 5 |
congelation tissus | 3 |
congelation organes | 3 |
congelation sacs | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CONGELATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | congelatio escharotica (gangrenous congelation, third degree congelation), tredie grads forfrysning (gangrenous congelation, third degree congelation), størkningsvarme (expansive congelation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hyytyminen (clotting, coagulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | congélation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erstarrung (congealment, fossilization, freezing, numbness, ossification, paralysis, petrifaction, rigidity, solidification, stiffness, torpidity, torpidor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρυοπάγημα τρίτου βαθμού (gangrenous congelation, third degree congelation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megalvadás (agglomeration, clotting, coagulation, congealment, jellification), alvadt állapot, alvadt anyag, alvasztás, befagyás (freezing), dermedtség (numbness), elfagyás, összefagyás, fagyott anyag, megszilárdult anyag, megalvasztás, megdermedés (chilling, congealment, gelation, solidification, stupefaction), megfagyás (congealment, gelation), megmerevedés, megmerevedettség, megszilárdítás (cementing, consolidation, solidification, stabilization), megszilárdulás (consolidation, setting, solidification), fagyasztás (chilling, icing, refrigeration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | congelamento (congealment, freezing, frostbite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 氷結 (freeze, freezing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひょうけつ (ballot, decision, freeze, freezing, verdict, vote, voting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ongelationcay congelação (freezing), conagulação, solidificação (concretion, fixation, set, setting, solidification). (various references) congelare (congealment, freezing, gelation). (various references) замерзание (freezing). (various references) congelación (congealment, freeze, freezing, frostbite). (various references) pıhtılaştırma (coagulating, congealment), pıhtılaşma (clotting, coagulation, congealment), donmuş madde, donma (congealment, freeze, freezing, frostbite, hardening), dondurma (congealment, freezing, ice, ice cream, icecream, refrigeration, sundae). (various references) тверднення, мерзлота, затвердіння (calcification, callosity, callus, consolidation, hardening, induration, solidification), замерзання (freezing). (various references) sự đông lại (coagulation, congealment, gelation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CONGELATION": congelations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CONGELATION" (pronounced 'Con`ge*la"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-n-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: congenital, elongation. | |
-2 letters: cognation, congenial, contagion, noncoital. | |
-3 letters: canoeing, cleaning, cleating, conation, ecotonal, enacting, enlacing, gantline, gelation, latening, legation, locating, location, negation, neologic, notional, octangle. | |
-4 letters: aconite, actinon, alencon, aloetic, ancient, aneling, angelic, anglice, anteing, antigen, antilog, antlion, atingle, atoning, cannoli, canting, catling, cloning, coagent, coaling, coating, cognate, coinage, cologne, congeal, connate, connote, contain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-n-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: congelations. | |
+2 letters: noncollegiate. | |
+3 letters: antitechnology, conglomerating, conglomeration, congregational, nongeometrical, nontheological. | |
+4 letters: conglomerations, ontogenetically, reconsolidating. | |
+5 letters: anticonglomerate, antitechnologies, nanotechnologies, roentgenological. | |
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