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Webster 1913 Edition


Refrigeration

Re-frigˊer-a′tion

(-?′sh?n)
,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
réfrigération
, L.
refrigeratio
.]
The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled.

Webster 1828 Edition


Refrigeration

REFRIGERA'TION

,
Noun.
The act of cooling; the abatement of heat; state of being cooled.

Definition 2024


refrigeration

refrigeration

See also: réfrigération

English

Noun

refrigeration (countable and uncountable, plural refrigerations)

  1. The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it.
  2. The process of preserving something by cooling.
  3. (medicine) The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes.

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