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View synonyms for frigorific

frigorific

[ frig-uh-rif-ik ]

adjective

  1. causing or producing cold.


frigorific

/ ˌfrɪɡəˈrɪfɪk /

adjective

  1. obsolete.
    causing cold or freezing


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Word History and Origins

Origin of frigorific1

1660–70; < Latin frīgorificus cooling, equivalent to frīgor- (stem of frīgus ) cold + -i- -i- + -ficus -fic

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Word History and Origins

Origin of frigorific1

C17: from French frigorifique , from Latin frīgorificus , from frīgus cold, coldness + facere to make

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Example Sentences

This refrigerator is like those which we employ in our sulphurous anhydride frigorific apparatus.

This vaporization of liquids is a frigorific or cooling process, and when most rapid the frigorific effect reaches its maximum.

Table exhibiting a few of the most useful Frigorific Mixtures.

A mixture of sulphide of carbon and solid carbonic anhydride forms almost the most powerful frigorific agent known.

In chemistry, as a reagent; and, owing to the cold produced during its solution, to form frigorific mixtures.

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