congelation
Americannoun
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the act or process of congealing; the state of being congealed.
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the product of congealing; a concretion; coagulation.
noun
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the process of congealing
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something formed by this process
Etymology
Origin of congelation
1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin congelātiōn- (stem of congelātiō ). See congeal, -ation
Example Sentences
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I. To leave the Colonel in the crenellated tower, where he would have died the same day of congelation.
From The Man With The Broken Ear by Henry Holt
Fur Country," reading as follows: "It is not a mist or fog,' he said to his companions, 'it is frost-rime,' a dense vapor which remains in a state of complete congelation.
From Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado by Alexander McAllan
The water at our anchorage being fresh at half-tide, was, no doubt, in favour of this rapid congelation.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
We may be surprised to find that congelation rests at the same, or nearly the same, level in the Alps of Switzerland, and on the Corsican mountains eight degrees further south.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
But as soon as the surface of the torrent cools to the point of congelation, it loses the splendour of its first incandescence.
From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Luigi Palmieri
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