Meaning of FREEZING
| Pronunciation: | | 'freezing
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- [n] the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
- [adj] extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "let's get inside; I'm freezing"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather"
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| | Synonyms: | | arctic, cold, freeze, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar |
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| | See Also: | | chilling, cooling, freeze-drying, frost, icing, lyophilisation, lyophilization, phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change, temperature reduction | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Freez"ing\, a.
Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in
manner. -- {Frrez"ing*ly}, adv.
{Freezing machine}. See {Ice machine}, under {Ice}.
{Freezing mixture}, a mixture (of salt and snow or of
chemical salts) for producing intense cold.
{Freezing point}, that degree of a thermometer at which a
fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water,
whose freezing point is at 32[deg] Fahr., and at 0[deg]
Centigrade.
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| | Related Terms: | | adiabatic absorption, adiabatic demagnetization, adiabatic expansion, air conditioning, air cooling, algid, algific, anhydration, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blast freezing, blast-freezing, bleak, boreal, bottling, brining, brisk, brumal, canning, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, congealing, congealment, congelation, cooling, corning, crisp, cryogenics, curing, cutting, deep freezing, dehydration, dehydrofreezing, desiccation, dry-curing, drying, electric refrigeration, embalming, evaporation, food freezing, freezable, freeze-drying, freezing cold, frigid, frigorific, frosty, frozen, fuming, gas refrigeration, gelid, glaciable, glacial, glaciation, glacification, hibernal, hiemal, hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, infrigidation, irradiation, jerking, keen, marination, mechanical refrigeration, mummification, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, perishing, pickling, piercing, pinching, polar, potting, quick freezing, quick-freezing, raw, reduction of temperature, refreezing, refrigerant, refrigeration, refrigerative, refrigeratory, regelation, rigorous, salting, seasoning, severe, sharp, sharp freezing, sharp-freezing, shivering, shivery, Siberian, sleety, slushy, smoking, snappy, stone-cold, stuffing, subzero, supercooled, super-cooling, taxidermy, tinning, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry |
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