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condense

/kuhn-dens/US // kənˈdɛns //UK // (kənˈdɛns) //

浓缩,凝聚,凝结,凝练

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    con·densed, con·dens·ing.

    • : to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate.
    • : to reduce to a shorter form; abridge: Condense your answer into a few words.
    • : to reduce to another and denser form, as a gas or vapor to a liquid or solid state.
v.无主动词 verb
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    con·densed, con·dens·ing.

    • : to become denser or more compact or concentrated.
    • : to reduce a book, speech, statement, or the like, to a shorter form.
    • : to become liquid or solid, as a gas or vapor: The steam condensed into droplets.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbabridge
Forms: condensed, condensing

Examples

  • A vapor chamber—an enclosed cooling system that relies on liquid evaporating and condensing to cool the air around it—employs another fan to help vent hot air out through the top.

  • This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

  • This interview is based on phone and email interviews and has been condensed and edited for clarity.

  • Automated tools that help condense and summarize and extract information from written text are becoming more and more essential.

  • Appel talked about how the university has condensed it’s “how to teach online” courses for teachers into week-long immersions, or shorter, that are now free for teachers and parents to meet the unprecedented demand.

  • Those vapors condense into a liquid later in the process and that “condensate” is collected in a storage area, called a sump.

  • She speaks in thick paragraphs that her staffers probably wish they could condense and sharpen at times.

  • I cannot condense the horror of either the Bosnian war or the Rwandan genocide in the length of this column.

  • They get an actor on the schedule at their budgets where they try to condense roles.

  • Should the vapor not condense well, the test-tube may be immersed in a glass of cold water.

  • "I wonder if she has ever tried to condense rudeness into an epigram," said Isabel viciously, pausing in her narrative.

  • I tried to condense the steam by the cold sides of the condenser, without using injection-water.

  • After a while it became cool enough to permit the water to condense on the surface and so the ocean began to be formed.

  • Heat and light come and go, as vapors of water condense into rain and dissolve into vapor to return again to the atmosphere.