condens

a. [ Cf. F. condensable. ] Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. condensatus, p. p. of condensare. See Condense, v. t. ] Made dense; condensed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Condensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Condensating. ] To condense. [ R. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. condensatio: cf. F. condensation. ] 1. The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Goldsmith ] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condensation product (Chem.), a substance obtained by the polymerization of one substance, or by the union of two or more, with or without separation of some unimportant side products. --
Surface condensation, the system of condensing steam by contact with cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. condensatif. ] Having the property of condensing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) (a) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products. (b) To undergo polymerization. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. condensus. ] Condensed; compact; dense. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The huge condense bodies of planets. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Condensed p. pr. & vb. n. Condensing. ] [ L. condensare; con- + densare to make thick or dense, densus thick, dense: cf. F. condenser. See Dense, and cf. Condensate. ] 1. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. [ 1913 Webster ]

In what shape they choose,
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem. & Physics) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of sugar) for preservation and transportation. --
Condensing engine, a steam engine in which the steam is condensed after having exerted its force on the piston.

Syn. -- To compress; contract; crowd; thicken; concentrate; abridge; epitomize; reduce. [ 1913 Webster ]