Condenser meaning

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One that condenses, especially an apparatus used to condense vapor.
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A mirror, lens, or combination of lenses used to gather light and direct it upon an object or through a projection lens.
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A person or thing that condenses.
  • An apparatus for converting gases or vapors to a liquid state.
  • A lens or series of lenses for concentrating light rays on an object or area.
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An apparatus used to condense vapor, usually using cooling or pressurization.
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A mirror, lens, or combination of lenses used to gather light and direct it upon an object or through a projection lens.
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A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.
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(electronics) A capacitor.
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(optics) A lens (combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.
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A dental instrument used to pack filling into a cavity in a tooth.
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Sentence Examples

  • The condenser commonly used is an old retort.

  • Some crystallizers are made entirely cylindrical, and are connected to the condenser of the vacuum pan; in order to maintain a partial vacuum in them, some are fitted with cold-water pipes to cool them and with steam pipes to heat them, and some are left open to the atmosphere at the top. But the efficiency of all depends on the process of almost imperceptible yet continuous evaporation and the methodical addition of syrup, and not on the idiosyncrasies of the experts who manage them; and there is no doubt that in large commercial processes of manufacture the simpler the apparatus used for obtaining a desired result, and the more easily it is understood, the better it will be for the manufacturer.

  • These two circuits are so adjusted that the closed oscillation circuit, consisting of the condenser, primary coil 1 See German Patent of F.

  • Also another condenser was added in parallel with the sensitive tube.

  • Owing to the fact that at temperatures between its melting and boiling point zinc has a strong affinity for iron, it is often contaminated by the scraper while being drawn from the condenser, as is shown by the fact that the scraper wears away rapidly.

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