condensing
Making more compact
Condensing is making something more compact or concentrated.
You condense a report by cutting unnecessary material.
Water vapor condenses into liquid droplets when it meets a cold surface.
The editor spent hours condensing the manuscript.
Condensing can also describe the emotional weight of compression: Years of resentment came condensing into that single look.
Heated water's gaseous form
- dropletsMinute liquid globules
- dewOvernight surface condensation
- mistFine airborne moisture
- fogLow-lying cloud cover
moisture · humidity · vapor · saturation · clouds · precipitation · coolant · coils
Heat removal for preservation
- coolingLosing thermal energy
- evaporatorLiquid-to-gas conversion device
- chillerRefrigeration unit or horror
- boilerWater-heating vessel
turbine · enthalpy · thermodynamics · liquefaction · compressor · HVAC · coolant · coils
Purify through vaporization
- abridgeShorten by omission
- summarizeState main points briefly
- streamlineRemove unnecessary elements
- synthesizeCombine into unified whole
encapsulate · crystallize · essence · gist · précis · abstract · outline · epitomize
steam
Heated water's gaseous form
fog · moisture · humidity · vapor · saturation · clouds · precipitation · coolant · coils · HVAC
refrigeration
Heat removal for preservation
- coolingLosing thermal energy
- evaporatorLiquid-to-gas conversion device
- chillerRefrigeration unit or horror
boiler · turbine · enthalpy · thermodynamics · liquefaction · compressor · HVAC · coolant · coils · distillation
distill
Purify through vaporization
- abridgeShorten by omission
- summarizeState main points briefly
- streamlineRemove unnecessary elements
synthesize · encapsulate · crystallize · essence · gist · précis · abstract · outline · epitomize · truncate
- compressioncompress, compression, compressor, compressing, compact
- food processingcanning, freezing, drying, packaging, pasteurization
- organizingorganizing, categorizing, grouping, structuring, classifying
- brevitybrevity, concise, succinct, terse, pithy
- shrinking wordscontracting, reducing, diminishing, dwindling, decreasing
- simplificationsimplification, simplifying, simplify, simplified, summarizing
condensingevaporating
Changing from liquid to gas
vaporizing · boiling · sublimating · gasifying · steaming
condensingexpanding
Growing in scope
spreading · dispersing · dilating · enlarging · stretching
condensingexpanding
Growing in scope
elaborating · amplifying · extending · lengthening · padding