un condensed

adjective

reduced in volume, area, length, or scope; shortened: a condensed version of the book.

made denser, especially reduced from a gaseous to a liquid state.

thickened by distillation or evaporation; concentrated: condensed lemon juice.

Printing. (of type) narrow in proportion to its height. Compare expanded ( def 3 ).

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English; see condense, -ed²

Related forms

con·densed·ly, adverb

con·densed·ness, noun

non·con·densed, adjective

un·con·densed, adjective

well-con·densed, adjective

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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condensed (kənˈdɛnst)

—*adj*
1.	Compare expanded (of printers' type) narrower than usual for a particular height
2.	botany designating an inflorescence in which the flowers are crowded together and are almost or completely sessile
3.	chem Also called: fused designating a polycyclic ring system in a molecule in which two rings share two or more common atoms, as in naphthalene

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condensed

c.1600, "made more dense," pp. adj. from condense. Of literary works, from 1823. Condensed milk attested by 1863.

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"Partir, c'est mourir un peu.
(To leave is to die a little.)"

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