condensation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams
  2. noun the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state
  3. noun atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold
    condensate.
  4. noun the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
    compression; contraction.
    • the contraction of a gas on cooling
  5. noun a shortened version of a written work
    capsule; abridgement; abridgment.
  6. noun the act of increasing the density of something
    condensing.

WordNet


Con`den*sa"tion noun
Etymology
L. condensatio: cf. F. condensation.
Definitions
  1. The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
    He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay.
  2. (Physics) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.
  3. (Chem.) A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene.

Webster 1913