condensate

[ kuhn-den-seyt, kon-duhn-seyt ]

noun

1. a product of condensation, as a liquid reduced from a gas or vapor.

condensate

/ kənˈdɛnseɪt /

noun

1. a substance formed by condensation, such as a liquid from a vapour

Word History and Origins

Origin of condensate¹

First recorded in 1545–55; from Latin condēnsātus “thickened together,” past participle of condēnsāre “to thicken together”; condense

Example Sentences

After years of work, she and her colleagues are finally ready to set up a prototype experiment, and they hope to be blowing condensate bubbles in the next few years.

From Nautilus

Peiris leads a team of physicists studying how to steady the condensate blend against collapse from unrelated effects.

From Nautilus

Most proteins involved in condensates, he says, have a common architecture with some structured domains and some disordered regions.

From Quanta Magazine

The researchers derived a mathematical model based on the physics of condensate formation that could exactly predict the size of nucleoli in cells.

From Quanta Magazine

This process allows the condensate to achieve lower temperatures than are possible with the same methods on Earth.

From Science News

Those vapors condense into a liquid later in the process and that “condensate” is collected in a storage area, called a sump.

From The Daily Beast

The condensate is then supposed to be routed into the pipeline system that delivers the crude to the nearby refinery.

From The Daily Beast

The supply of water to the condenser is regulated according to the volatility of the condensate.

From Project Gutenberg

An air pump transferred condensate and sea water into a tank from which it passed overboard.

From Project Gutenberg