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Webster 1913 Edition
Intumescence
Inˊtu-mes′cence
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
intumescence
.] 1.
The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
The
intumescence
of nations. Johnson.
2.
Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Intumescence
INTUMES'CENCE
,Noun.
1.
A swell; a swelling with bubbles; a rising and enlarging; a tumid state.Definition 2024
intumescence
intumescence
English
Noun
intumescence (plural intumescences)
- (uncountable) the process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen
- (countable) an instance of such swelling
- 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 10:
- ...but there are other causes of change, which, though slow in their operation, and invisible in their progress, are perhaps as much superior to human resistance, as the revolutions of the sky, or intumescence of the tide.
- 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 10: