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condense
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French condenser, from Latin condensare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?d?ns/
Verb
condense (third-person singular simple present condenses, present participle condensing, simple past and past participle condensed)
- (transitive) To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.
- Synonyms: thicken, simplify, (cooking) reduce; see also Thesaurus:compress
- Antonym: dilute
- The secret course pursued both at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
- (transitive, chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
- (intransitive, chemistry) To be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state.
Derived terms
- condensing locomotive
Related terms
- condensation
Translations
Adjective
condense (comparative more condense, superlative most condense)
- (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
- The huge condense bodies of planets.
References
- condense at OneLook Dictionary Search
- condense in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: condensent, condenses
Verb
condense
- first-person singular present indicative of condenser
- third-person singular present indicative of condenser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of condenser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of condenser
- second-person singular imperative of condenser
Italian
Noun
condense f
- plural of condensa
Anagrams
- censendo
Latin
Adjective
cond?nse
- vocative masculine singular of cond?nsus
Portuguese
Verb
condense
- first-person singular present subjunctive of condensar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of condensar
- first-person singular imperative of condensar
- third-person singular imperative of condensar
Spanish
Verb
condense
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of condensar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of condensar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of condensar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of condensar.
condense From the web:
- what condenses
- what condenses to form chromosomes
- what condenses at the start of mitosis
- what condenses in clouds
- what condenses during prophase
- what condense mean
- what condenses into chromosomes
- what condenses chromatin
simplify
English
Etymology
From the French simplifier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?mpl?fa?/, /?s?mpl?fa?/
Verb
simplify (third-person singular simple present simplifies, present participle simplifying, simple past and past participle simplified)
- (transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
- To become simpler.
- 2006, Karen Oslund, “Reading Backwards: Language Politics and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia”, in David L. Hoyt and Karen Oslund (editors), The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context,[1] Lexington Books, ?ISBN, page 126:
- Thus, throughout the nineteenth century, linguists generally held that more grammatically complex languages were older and that languages tended to simplify over time—the four grammatical cases of German as contrasted with the seven of Latin, for example.
- 2006, Karen Oslund, “Reading Backwards: Language Politics and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia”, in David L. Hoyt and Karen Oslund (editors), The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context,[1] Lexington Books, ?ISBN, page 126:
Derived terms
- oversimplify
- simplification
- simplifier
Translations
simplify From the web:
- what simplify means
- what simplify mean in math
- what simplifying
- what simplify 12
- what simplifying fractions
- what simplify the radical expression
- what does simplify mean
- what do simplify mean
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