Sample sentences for CONDENSATION

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Definition

water that forms from warm air that comes in contact with a cold surface — such as the outside of a glass of ice water; or the process of the liquid forming

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an abridgement (shortened version of writing)

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anything made smaller, more compressed

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She slipped on a sidewalk made wet by condensation from an air conditioner.

condensation = the process or result of becoming more dense — especially a liquid formed from a gas as when water collects on the side of a cold glass

Snow was still thick upon the grounds, and the greenhouse windows were covered in condensation so thick that they couldn't see out of them in Herbology.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

condensation = water formed from water vapor

His one-volume history of the Army Air Force in the Second World War was supposed to be a readable condensation of the twenty-seven-volume Official History of the Army Air Force in World War Two.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

condensation = a shortened version (more dense)

Books cut shorter. Condensations.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

condensations = abridgements (shortened versions of writing)

She could see her reflection in the darkened glass, lips parted, eyes wide, and then the condensation of her breath obscured it.
Stephen King -- Carrie

condensation = moisture formed from water vapor

Cosette was a condensation of the auroral light in the form of a woman.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

condensation = a dense image

Condensation streamed down the windows.
David Almond -- Kit's Wilderness

condensation = water formed from water vapor

It is primarily a condensation of the growing rivalry between two teen-age gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, each of which has its own prideful uniform.
Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim -- Westside Story

condensation = a shortened version (telling a longer story in a shorter or condensed manner)

A fog of condensation had formed on the inside of the pane, so that her image appeared to him as a kind of silhouette, a vague impression of his mother at the sink, refracted and fragmented, a wash of color.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars

condensation = water formed from water vapor

Two volumes of an encyclopedia, a book of business law, a world almanac old as the hills, some leatherbound Reader's Digest condensations.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues

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