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noun

Condenser n.

1.

One who, or that which, condenses.

2.

(Physic)

(a)

An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape.

(b)

An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate.

(c)

A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object.

3.

(Chem.) An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.

4.

(Steam Engine) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air.

Achromatic condenser (Optics), an achromatic lens used as a condenser.

Bull's-eye condenser, or Bull's-eye (Optics), a lens of short focal distance used for concentrating rays of light.

Injection condenser, a vessel in which steam is condensed by the direct contact of water.

Surface condenser, an apparatus for condensing steam, especially the exhaust of a steam engine, by bringing it into contact with metallic surface cooled by water or air.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Condenser" Quotes from Famous Books

... chickens and later even ducks which never, however, set web-foot in water. And they had a garden because they decided they were so in need of green vegetables. They turned a little priceless water from the condenser into the garden; but not enough for the vegetables and too much for the accountant's books. After estimating that the one undersized cabbage they raised cost them L65 worth of water, he ...

— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg

... only exception I can think of is the electrostatic condenser, and you could say that it converts static electricity into a current flow if you wanted to stretch a point. On the other hand, a condenser isn't usually ...

— Damned If You Don't • Gordon Randall Garrett

... Boulton and Watt. Although this was not the birthplace* [footnote... The birthplace of the condensing engine of Watt was the workshop in the Glasgow University, where he first contrived and used a separate condenser—the true and vital element in Watt's invention. The condenser afterwards attained its true effective manhood at Soho The Newcomen engine was in fact a condensing engine, but as the condensation was effected inside the steam cylinder it was a very costly source of power in respect to ...

— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth

... the years from 1827 to 1839, when he removed to the United States, would be no small task, and reference to the more important only can be here made. Compressed air for transmitting power, forced draft for boilers by means of centrifugal blowers, steam boilers of new and improved types, the surface condenser for marine engines, the location of the engines of a ship for war purposes below the water line, the steam fire-engine, the design and construction of the "Novelty" (a locomotive for the Rainhill contest ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord

... the process of distillation. This consists in boiling the water and condensing the steam. Fig. 24 illustrates the process of distillation, as commonly conducted in the laboratory. Ordinary water is poured into the flask A and boiled. The steam is conducted through the condenser B, which consists essentially of a narrow glass tube sealed within a larger one, the space between the two being filled with cold water, which is admitted at C and escapes at D. The inner tube is thus kept cool and the ...

— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson

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