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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. 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.

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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.