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rarefactions

rarefactions is the plural of rarefaction.

Meaning of rarefaction

Noun

rarefaction (countable and uncountable, plural rarefactions)

  1. A reduction in the density of a material, especially that of a fluid.
    • [T]his ſeal'd vial, being broken under water, ſuck'd in a conſiderable quantity of it, whether, becauſe of ſome little rarefaction of the Air included in the ſealing, or becauſe of the infrigidation of that Air by the ſnow, or for both theſe Reaſons, or any other, I ſhall not Now diſpute.1663, Robert Boyle, “Title I. Experiments Touching Bodies Capable of Freezing Others.”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […]...

Questions about rarefactions

What is rarefactions the plural of?
Rarefactions is the plural of rarefaction.

Words near rarefactions in the dictionary

  1. rarefact
  2. rarefacted
  3. rarefacting
  4. rarefaction
  5. rarefactional
  6. rarefactions
  7. rarefactive
  8. rarefacts
  9. rarefiable
  10. rarefication
  11. rarefications

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