Condense word meaning and definition

[verb] make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
[verb] undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
[verb] compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
[verb] develop due to condensation; "All our planets condensed out of the same material"
[verb] become more compact or concentrated; "Her feelings condensed"
[verb] cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid; "The cold air condensed the steam"
[verb] remove water from; "condense the milk"

\Con*dense"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Condensed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Condensing}.] [L. condensare; con- + densare to make thick or dense, densus thick, dense: cf. F. condenser. See {Dense}, and cf. {Condensate}.] 1. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. --Milton. The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. --Motley. 2. (Chem. & Physics) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. {Condensed milk}, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of sugar) for preservation and transportation. {Condensing engine}, a steam engine in which the steam is condensed after having exerted its force on the piston. Syn: To compress; contract; crowd; thicken; concentrate; abridge; epitomize; reduce.
\Con*dense"\, v. i. 1. To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form. Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. --H. Spencer. 2. (Chem.)
(a) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
(b) To undergo polymerization.
\Con*dense"\, a. [L. condensus.] Condensed; compact; dense. [R.] The huge condense bodies of planets. --Bentley.

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