The process of passing, or the act of converting, from a fluid to a solid state; or the state of being congealed; concretion. It differ from crystalization in this; in congelation the whole substance of a fluid may become solid; in crystalization, when a salt is formed, a portion of liquid is left. But the congelation of water is a real crystalization.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. 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.
2. The state of being congealed.
3. That which is congealed.
Refrigeration Roget’s Thesaurus §385
N. refrigeration, infrigidation, reduction of temperature, cooling, congelation, conglaciation|, ice, solidification, ice box (refrigerator) 385, extincteur, fire annihilator, amianth, amianthus, earth-flax, mountain-flax, flexible asbestos, fireman, fire brigade (incombustibility) 388a, incombustibility, incombustibleness, (insulation) 388a, air conditioning, central air conditioning, air conditioner, fan, attic fan, dehumidifier
V. cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice, congeal, freeze, glaciate, benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter, damp, slack quench, put out, stamp out, extinguish, go out, burn out (incombustibility) 388a
Adj. cooled, frozen out, cooling, frigorific
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