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condensed

[ kuhn-denst ]

adjective

  1. reduced in volume, area, length, or scope; shortened:

    a condensed version of the book.

  2. made denser, especially reduced from a gaseous to a liquid state.
  3. thickened by distillation or evaporation; concentrated:

    condensed lemon juice.

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


condensed

/ kənˈdɛnst /

adjective

  1. (of printers' type) narrower than usual for a particular height Compare expanded
  2. botany designating an inflorescence in which the flowers are crowded together and are almost or completely sessile
  3. Also calledfused chem 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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Other Words From

  • con·densedly adverb
  • con·densedness noun
  • noncon·densed adjective
  • uncon·densed adjective
  • well-con·densed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of condensed1

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English; condense + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

Boiling indoors is never a good solution, as every surface will soon be covered with condensed water.

Their typical areas of research include building models for condensed matter physics, viral evolution and population dynamics, not epidemiology or public health.

Why the NBA is considering a condensed offseason and a December start dateThe 40-year-old Smith is a lifelong Utah resident and a longtime Jazz fan.

“This is the first time we can really claim that room-temperature superconductivity has been found,” said Ion Errea, a condensed matter theorist at the University of the Basque Country in Spain who was not involved in the work.

None of the sound speeds previously measured in a variety of liquids and solids surpass the proposed limit, condensed matter physicist Kostya Trachenko and colleagues found.

The story condensed almost too perfectly to headline-sized subtlety: Mary Poppins With a Camera.

Politico posted a condensed version of the brief, and I shared the byline with Ilya.

As the light condensed and dwindled I contemplated my ill planning.

This is an edited and condensed transcript of our conversation.

What follows is a condensed, edited version of the interview.

In length there was no alteration, but the design seems more condensed, more compact, yet slightly wider in the opening.

The greatest part of the waste steam is condensed in heating the water to fill the boiler; what escapes is a mere nothing.

And there he waited in that hot gray cloud that pressed to the roof where it condensed and fell like warm rain.

It is, in fact, watery vapour drawn from the air next the surface of the ocean, and condensed in its ascent through the tube.

Long lectures may be given upon elocution, but the advice can be condensed into two directions.

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