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Definition: Condensing |
CondensingNoun1. The act of increasing the density of something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "condensing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
Synonym: CondensingSynonym: condensation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Condensing |
| English words defined with "condensing": abridged ♦ Circulating pump, Condensative ♦ distillation, distillment ♦ Engine turning, Ether engine, Evaporator ♦ High-pressure engine, Hot well ♦ Low-pressure steam engine ♦ Noncondensing ♦ Spot lens. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "condensing": AMMONIA-STILL OPERATOR ♦ Bottoming-cycle ♦ chemical vapor deposition, chemical vapour deposition, clouds, Condensate Return System, condenser for vapour engines, Continental comb, convergent light, CORONAL RAIN, cryopump, cryopumping ♦ extraction turbine, EXTRACTOR-PLANT OPERATOR ♦ FINISHER-CARD TENDER, Fleissner process, fractional horse-power condensing unit, freezeout method, Freudenberg plates ♦ hermetically sealed condensing unit ♦ Leopoldi furnace ♦ pass-out turbine, pump-and-still operator ♦ semi-hermetically sealed condensing unit, standard condition, Standard Conditions, steam extraction turbine, subcooling ♦ woollen-spun. (references) |
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 | Dryer at milk condensing plant. Antigo, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Milk condensing plant. Barrels of powdered milk. Antigo, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Charleston (vicinity), West Virginia. Condensing chambers of a plant on the Kanawha River. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Business | The principal equipment imported from the United States continues to be packaged units, liquid chillers, compressors, air-conditioning self-contained units, self-contained refrigerated enclosures, and air conditioning condensing units and parts. (references) | |
Very good sales prospects exist for products under Harmonized System (HS) codes 84.14.90.90, 84.15.82.90, 84.18.60.90, 84.18.61.90, 84.18.99.80, and 84.15.90.90, including machinery and equipment for cooling chambers, compressors, condensing units, water chillers, air coolers, and packaged units. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Condensing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "Condensing" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96.43% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "condensing": condensing coil ♦ Condensing electroscope ♦ Condensing engine ♦ condensing instrument ♦ condensing lens ♦ condensing unit ♦ hermetically sealed condensing unit. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "condensing": gas-condensing, non-condensing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "condensing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 凝聚 (Coherence, Coherency, Condense, Condensed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | semihermetisk kondenseringsaggregat (semi-hermetically sealed condensing unit), lille kondenseringsaggregat (fractional horse-power condensing unit), hermetisk kondenseringsaggregat (hermetically sealed condensing unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | semi-hermetische compressor condensoraggregaat (semi-hermetically sealed condensing unit), hermetische compressor condensor-aggregaat (hermetically sealed condensing unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puolihermeettinen lauhdutinyksikkö (semi-hermetically sealed condensing unit), hermeettinen lauhdutinyksikkö (hermetically sealed condensing unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | condensant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verdichtend (solidifying), kondensierend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπυκνωτικό όργανο (condensing instrument), ερμητικό συγκρότημα συμπιεστή-συμπυκνωτή (hermetically sealed condensing unit), ψυκτικό συγκρότημα σε κλειστό περίβλημα (semi-hermetically sealed condensing unit), ψυκτικό συγκρότημα χαμηλής ισχύος (fractional horse-power condensing unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | condensazione (condensation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 집광. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jannoo ny s'girrey (shortening), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ondensingcay grupo frigorífico semi-hermético (semi-hermetically sealed condensing unit), grupo frigorífico hermético (hermetically sealed condensing unit), grupo frigorífico de fraca potência (fractional horse-power condensing unit). (various references) grupo frigorífico hermético accesible (semi-hermetically sealed condensing unit), grupo frigorífico hermético (hermetically sealed condensing unit). (various references) skruvtätat kompressor-kondensoraggregat (hermetically sealed condensing unit, semi-hermetically sealed condensing unit), litet kompressor-kondensoraggregat (fractional horse-power condensing unit). (various references) toplayıcı mercek (condensing lens), soğutucu kangal (condensing coil), mercek (bulls eye, condenser, condensing lens, eye lense, eyepiece, glass, lens, object lens, objective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "condensing": recondensing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "condensing" (pronounced kunde"nsing) |
| 5 | -e" n s i ng | commencing, dispensing, expensing, fencing, lensing, mensing, sensing. |
| 4 | -n s i ng | advancing, announcing, balancing, bouncing, conferencing, convincing, dancing, denouncing, distancing, enhancing, experiencing, financing, freelancing, glancing, influencing, Lancing, licensing, mincing, outdistancing, pouncing, prancing, pronouncing, rebalancing, referencing, refinancing, renouncing, rinsing, romancing, sentencing, sequencing, silencing, teleconferencing, trouncing, unconvincing, videoconferencing, wincing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, affixing, amassing, annexing, assessing, basing, blessing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, compressing, confessing, conversing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispersing, displacing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enticing, erasing, expressing, facing, faxing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, lapsing, leasing, loosing, massing, menacing, messing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, practicing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pulsing, racing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, reducing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, sacrificing, seducing, servicing, showcasing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, unceasing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: consigned, seconding. | |
-2 letters: codesign, cognised, cosigned, encoding, scending. | |
-3 letters: censing, codeins, cognise, coigned, coignes, condign, conines, conning, consign, denning, dingoes, donning, endings, secondi, sending. | |
-4 letters: ceding, codein, codens, coding, coigne, coigns, coined, conges, conies, conine, coning, conins, conned, cosied, cosign, cosine, deigns, design, dinges, dogies, doings, donsie, dosing, ending, ensign, geodic, geoids, ginned, icones. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-s" | |
+2 letters: recondensing. | |
+3 letters: condescending, confidingness, disconnecting, discontenting, nondecreasing. | |
+5 letters: condescendingly, confidingnesses. | |
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