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Synonyms for refrigeration

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ri-frij-uh-rey-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˌfrɪdʒ əˈreɪ ʃən

Définition of refrigeration

Origin :
  • late 15c., "act of cooling or freezing," from Latin refrigerationem (nominative refrigeratio) "a cooling, mitigation of heat," especially in sickness, noun of action from past participle stem of refrigerare, from re- "again" (see re-) + frigerare "make cool," from frigus (genitive frigoris) "cold" (see frigid). Specifically "freezing provisions as a means of preserving them" from 1881.
  • noun cooling
Example sentences :
  • Refrigeration on shipboard opened up and enlarged the export trade.
  • Extract from : « Apple Growing » by M. C. Burritt
  • Why are precautions necessary in the use of ice for refrigeration?
  • Extract from : « Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value » by Harry Snyder
  • What effect does refrigeration have upon the composition of food?
  • Extract from : « Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value » by Harry Snyder
  • When he arrived there, it was to find they had no refrigeration facilities.
  • Extract from : « Expediter » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
  • Behold how the sun is imagined to be engendered by refrigeration!
  • Extract from : « Essays and Miscellanies » by Plutarch
  • Who can tell us now when this process of refrigeration commenced?
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences » by Edward Hitchcock
  • It is this principle that is utilized in refrigeration and ice making.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement No. 819 » by Various
  • It is not a summer cheese, especially in lands where refrigeration is scarce.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Book of Cheese » by Robert Carlton Brown
  • Where electricity is available, the problem of refrigeration is simple.
  • Extract from : « If You're Going to Live in the Country » by Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley
  • These vapors are condensed by refrigeration into the solid form.
  • Extract from : « A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe » by Anonymous

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