condensable (kondensabl)

[=F.Sp.con densable = Pg. condensavel = It. con dens a bile, Not being in the utmost extremity of density, but condensable yet further. Sir K. Digby , Nature of Bodies, ix. condensatet (kon-den'sāt), v. [L. condensa tus , pp. of con dens are , condense: see condense, v.] 1. trans. To condense; make dense or more dense. If there were more [critical learning], it would conden sate and compact itself into le room. 1173 He must needs, as the sun, raise many envious exhala tions, which, condensed by a popular odium, were capable to cloud the brightest merit. Eikon Basilike . A heated ocean would send up abundant vapours, producing a perpetual mist or fog to be constantly condensed, by the cold of space without, into continual rains. Dawson, Nature and the Bible, p. 52. =Syn. 1. To concentrate, contract, crowd together, inspi ate; to abridge, shorten, reduce, epitomize, abbreviate; to solidify. II. in trans. To become denser or more compact, as the particles of a body; become liquid or solid, as a gas or vapor. Vapours when they begin to condense and coalesce. Newton , Opticks. Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. H. Spencer , Prin. of Biol., § 2. condenset (kon-dens'), a. [L. condensus, very close, dense, com- (intensive) + dens us , close, dense: see dense and condense, v.] Close in texture or composition; compact; dense. Solid and condense. Raleigh, Hist. World, I. i. § 8. The huge condense bodies of planets. Bentley , Sermons. condensed (kon-denst'), p . a . [Pp. of condense, v.] Made dense or close in texture, composition, or expre ion; compre ed; compact: as, a condensed style. Rapid reading of such condensed thought is unproductive. Selden, Table-Talk, Int., p. 9. Condensed beer, milk, etc. See the nouns. - Condensed manifold, in math., such a manifold of points that between any two a ignable points within a certain interval there will always be points of the manifold. - Condensed type, the na name given by type-founders to thin, tall, and slender forms of letter. A condensed type is thinner than a compre ed type. EXAMPLE OF CONDENSED TYPE. Condensed Clarendon. =Syn. Succinct , Laconic , etc. See concise. IMG:content-1004.png:[merged small][merged small][graphic][subsumed][merged small] See electroscope. Hydraulic condenser. See hydraulic. Surface condenser, in a steam-engine, a condenser in which the exhaust-steam is distributed through a large number of pipes surrounded by cold water, which is constantly renewed. In a le common form flat chambers are used instead of pipes. An in