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condensed, ppl. a.|kənˈdɛnst|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. a. Made dense or more dense; compressed, highly concentrated. condensed milk: milk reduced to a thick viscid consistence by evaporation.
1606B. Jonson Hymenæi Wks. (Rtldg.) 559 Dark and condensed clouds. 1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. 117 A School⁓man is the Ghost of the Stagirite, in a body of condensed air. 1836Examiner 17 Apr. 255 (Advt.), Condensed Preparation of Sarsaparilla. 1863O. W. Norton Army Lett. (1903) 177 We buy condensed milk of the sutlers. 1868Brit. Pat. 3928 4 In preserving milk it is preferred first to condense it..and then to charge the condensed milk with gas in a vessel completely air-tight. 1869Roscoe Elem. Chem. 17 Ozone is oxygen in a condensed state. 1871Food Jrnl. 655 Plain condensed milk, without the addition of the sugar. 1871Evening Stand. 25 Nov. 1/3 [A history of Condensed Milk]. 1957Wodehouse Over Seventy xix. 182 Don't run away with the idea that the Swiss do nothing but yodel and make condensed milk.
b. Printing. condensed type: a form of type, narrow in proportion to its height.
Mod. Type List. Eight line Grotesque Condensed Old Style. Long Primer Latin condensed.
2. spec. Reduced from the gaseous or vaporous to the liquid or solid state, or from the state of invisible gas to that of visible vapour.
1833H. Martineau Manch. Strike vi. 66 The windows, thickened with the condensed breath of the workpeople. 1853Herschel Pop. Lect. Sc. i. (1873) 13 Steam and condensed gases. 1879Cassell's Tech. Educ. ii. 82.
3. a. fig. Put into small compass, highly compressed, compact; esp. of literary work or style.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. p. vi, Results presented in a condensed and lucid form. 1830Jeffrey in Trevelyan Macaulay (1876) I. iv. 193 Macaulay made the best speech, the most condensed. 1886Morley Ht. Martineau Crit. Misc. III. 208 A pithy brevity, a condensed argumentativeness.
b. Music. condensed score = compressed score.
Hence conˈdensedness, condensed quality. |