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refrigerant

refrigerant noun: a substance used in a heat cycle that undergoes a phase change between gas and liquid to allow the cooling, as in refrigerators, air conditioners, etc.

Noun

refrigerant (plural refrigerants)

  1. A substance used in a heat cycle that undergoes a phase change between gas and liquid to allow the cooling, as in refrigerators, air conditioners, etc.
  2. That which makes cool or cold, such as a medicine for allaying the symptoms of fever.
    • […] never give warning that you are about to be pathetic; and call upon your hearers, as is sometimes done, to follow you in the attempt. This almost never fails to prove a refrigerant to passion.1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Dublin: Whitestone et al., Volume 2, Lecture 32, p. 403
    • […] taking a blue and white soda-powder, [she] mingled the same in water, and encouraged me to drink the result. It might be a specific for seasickness, but it was not for home-sickness. The fiz was a mockery, and the saline refrigerant struck a colder chill to my despondent heart.1869, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Cinders from the Ashes”, in Pages from an Old Volume of Life, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, published 1883, page 245

Adjective

refrigerant (comparative more refrigerant, superlative most refrigerant)

  1. (obsolete) That cools or freezes; providing relief from heat or fever.
    • This Experiment may be transferred vnto the Cure of Gangrenes, either Comming of themselues, or induced by too much Applying of Opiates: Wherein you must beware of Dry Heat, and resort to Things that are Refrigerant, with an Inward Warmth, and Vertue of Cherishing.1627, Francis Bacon, Sylua Syluarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, London: William Lee, VIII. Century, p. 204
    • Here on a bank, refrigerant seat,
      Screen’d from the Sun’s o’ercoming heat,
      Some stretch’d at ease the hours employ,
      In Bacchus’s unbounded joy,1788, John Hawkesworth, “Laudes Dargelli, or, Verses on the Dargle”, in The Poetical Works of John Hawkesworth, Dublin, page 25

refrigerant meaning in Tamil

refrigerant in Tamil

குளிர்பதனப் பொருள், குளிர் பதனப் பொருள், குளிர்ப்பான், பதன்பொருள்

Forms of refrigerant

Noun
pluralrefrigerants
Adjective
comparativemore refrigerant
superlativemost refrigerant

Plural of refrigerant: refrigerants

Origin of refrigerant

From Latin refrīgerāns, present participle of refrīgerō (“to cool, to refresh”).

Words formed from refrigerant

Questions about refrigerant

What does refrigerant mean?
Refrigerant means a substance used in a heat cycle that undergoes a phase change between gas and liquid to allow the cooling, as in refrigerators, air conditioners, etc.
What is refrigerant in Tamil?
Refrigerant in Tamil is குளிர்பதனப் பொருள், குளிர் பதனப் பொருள், குளிர்ப்பான். See Refrigerant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is refrigerant?
Refrigerant can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of refrigerant?
The plural of refrigerant is refrigerants.

Words near refrigerant in the dictionary

  1. refriends
  2. refries
  3. refrig
  4. refrig.
  5. refrigerable
  6. refrigerant
  7. refrigerants
  8. refrigeratable
  9. refrigerate
  10. refrigerated
  11. refrigerates

Source and license

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