condensation (kon den sash on)

[F.condensation (> D. con dens a tie = G. condensation = Dan. kon dens at i on ) = Sp. con dens a cion = Pg. condensação = It. con dens azione, He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequalled master of the arts of selection and condensation . Macaulay , Oliver Goldsmith. 2. In chem, and phys., the act of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid or solid form. The same vapours, being by further condensation formed into rain, fall down in drops. Derham, Physico-Theology, iii., note 1. Surface condensation, a mode of condensing steam by bringing it in contact with cold metallic surfaces instead of by injecting cold water. =Syn. Compre ion, Condensa tion. See compre ion.