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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 formingor:
an abridgement (shortened version of writing)
or:
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
- 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
- Books cut shorter. Condensations.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- 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
- Cosette was a condensation of the auroral light in the form of a woman.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- Condensation streamed down the windows.David Almond -- Kit's Wilderness
- 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
- 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
- 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
condensation = water formed from water vapor
condensation = a shortened version (more dense)
condensations = abridgements (shortened versions of writing)
condensation = moisture formed from water vapor
condensation = a dense image
condensation = water formed from water vapor
condensation = a shortened version (telling a longer story in a shorter or condensed manner)
condensation = water formed from water vapor
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