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rarification

rarification is the alternative form 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: […]...

Forms of rarification

pluralrarifications

Questions about rarification

What is rarification the alternative form of?
Rarification is the alternative form of rarefaction.

Words near rarification in the dictionary

  1. rarfs
  2. rari
  3. Rarick
  4. Raricks
  5. rariconstant
  6. rarification
  7. rarifications
  8. rarified
  9. rarifier
  10. rarifiers
  11. rarifies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rarification (page history and authors); rarefaction (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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