Condense: Definition and part of speech

Condense

  1. a. Condensed; compact; dense.
  2. v. t. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
  3. v. t. To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
  4. v. i. To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
  5. v. i. To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
  6. v. i. To undergo polymerization.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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