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liquifaction

liquifaction is the alternative form of liquefaction.

Meaning of liquefaction

Noun

liquefaction (countable and uncountable, plural liquefactions)

  1. The process of being, or state of having been, made liquid (from either a solid or a gas).
    • Whenas in silks my Julia goes, / Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows / That liquefaction of her clothes.1648, Robert Herrick, “Upon Julia's Clothes”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], →OCLC; republished in Poems By Robert...
  2. The liquid or semiliquid that results from this process.
    • Where we might usually have applied dressings and put bandages on, many people weren't able to keep dressings on their cats clean and dry because houses and gardens were full of liquefaction.2017, Jacob Bull, Tora Holmberg, Cecilia Åsberg, Animal Places: Lively Cartographies of Human-Animal Relations

Forms of liquifaction

pluralliquifactions

Questions about liquifaction

What is liquifaction the alternative form of?
Liquifaction is the alternative form of liquefaction.

Words near liquifaction in the dictionary

  1. liquidous
  2. liquids
  3. liquidus
  4. liquiduses
  5. liquidy
  6. liquifaction
  7. liquifactions
  8. liquifactive
  9. liquifiable
  10. liquification
  11. liquifications

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Adapted from Wiktionary: liquifaction (page history and authors); liquefaction (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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