[ UK /kəndˈɛns/ ]
[ US /kənˈdɛns/ ]
VERB
  1. develop due to condensation
    All our planets condensed out of the same material
  2. remove water from
    condense the milk
  3. make more concise
    condense the contents of a book into a summary
  4. undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
    water condenses
    The acid distills at a specific temperature
  5. compress or concentrate
    Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan
  6. cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid
    The cold air condensed the steam
  7. become more compact or concentrated
    Her feelings condensed
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How To Use condense In A Sentence

  • A great deal of work had had to be condensed into a relatively short period of time.
  • It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
  • Condensed soups are pretty much just cans of flavour.
  • If the condenser must be located above the turbine, then the pipe should be carried first downward and then upward in the U form, in the manner of the familiar "entrainer," which will be found effectively to prevent water getting back when the turbine is operating. Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers
  • Goldstone - mode may condense in the color - flavor - locked ( CFL ) phase matter.
  • Even now when he thought about it, the air in his lungs seemed to condense. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Steam condenses / is condensed into water when it touches a cold surface.
  • Most of it, however, had escaped into the atmosphere as heated gas and likely would not recondense for several hours. Harbinger
  • She carried her jeweler 's tools and supplies in a tote bag, along with two tins of condensed milk to ease the distress of the journey. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Chromosomes are visible only during cell division, when the DNA is supercoiled and condensed to facilitate distribution into daughter cells.
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