condensate
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of condensate
First recorded in 1545–55; from Latin condēnsātus “thickened together,” past participle of condēnsāre “to thicken together”; see condense
Example Sentences
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According to S&P Global Energy, markets have lost a collective 1.1 billion barrels since March, based on estimates of shut-in and trapped crude and condensate, says analyst Victoria Godunova.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Last year, just over 14.5 million barrels per day of crude and crude condensate exports passed through the strait, said Matt Smith, U.S. head analyst at Kpler.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026
The protein adopts one conformation outside a condensate and a different one inside it.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2026
Rather than using superconductors, they worked with an ultracold gas of atoms known as a Bose-Einstein condensate.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
Possibly it was of the jet type, with pumps operating off the paddle wheel axle and with a return of condensate from a hot well into the feed water line.
From The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 by Chapelle, Howard I. (Howard Irving)
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