regelation
/ree-juh-ley-shuhn/US // ˌri dʒəˈleɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌriːdʒɪˈleɪʃən) //
监管,调节,改革,调控
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Physics.
- : a phenomenon in which the freezing point of water is lowered by the application of pressure; the melting and refreezing of ice, at constant temperature, caused by varying the pressure.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inrefrigeration
Examples
This latter question is not once referred to in the memoir in which the regelation theory was first developed.
On both theories, therefore, the strength and quickness of the regelation ought to correspond to the magnitude of the pressure.
Both Professor Helmholtz and I have since agreed to consider the physical cause of regelation an open question.
I have already made the usual regelation experiment before you when I compressed broken ice in this mould.
But a little further down the wound is healed again, and regelation has restored the smooth surface of the glacier.
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