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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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Etymology of 'Condenser'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Condenser" Quotes from Famous Books

... pressure and condenser valve; next, remove feed valve bonnet, then open main throttle valve, when the steam from steam chest will blow back through the choke plug, clearing it of ...

— The Traveling Engineers' Association - To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads • Anonymous

... effect is somewhat like transmitting a signal through water which fills a rubber tube; first of all the tube is distended, and its compression, or secondary effect, really transmits the impulse. A remedy for this is a condenser formed of alternate sheets of tin-foil and mica, C, connected with the battery, B, so as to balance the electric charge of the cable wire (Fig. 60). In the first Atlantic line an impulse demanded one-seventh ...

— Little Masterpieces of Science: - Invention and Discovery • Various

... in order to produce such and such a desired result: he wanted to see for himself how and why the engine did this or that, what was the use and object of piston and cylinder and crank and joint and condenser—in short, fully to understand the underlying principle of its construction. He took it to pieces for cleaning whenever it was needful; he made working models of it after his old childish pattern; he even ventured to tinker it up when out of order on his own responsibility. ...

— Biographies of Working Men • Grant Allen

... Steam, may be connected with other pneumatic powers talked of in that old religious literature, of which we fight so fiercely to keep the letters bright, and the working valves, so to speak, in good order (while we let the steam of it all carefully off into the cold condenser), what connection, I say, this modern "spiritus," in its valve-directed inspiration, has with that more ancient spiritus, or warm breath, which people used to think they might be "born of." Whether, in fine, there be any such thing as an entirely ...

— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... excellent example for shading. It consists of an independent condenser, whose steam-cylinder and valve mechanism is the same as that described with reference to Figures ...

— Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose

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