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to change from a gas into a liquid; to make a gas change into a liquid （由气体）冷凝；（使气体）凝结 - condense (into something)
Steam condenses into water when it cools. 蒸汽冷却时凝结为水。 🔊🔊 - condense something (into something)
The steam was condensed rapidly by injecting cold water into the cylinder. 由于汽缸中注入了冷水，蒸汽迅速凝结了。 🔊🔊
- condense (into something)
- [intransitive, transitive] condense (something)
if a liquid condenses or you condense it, it becomes thicker and stronger because it has lost some of its water （使）浓缩，变浓，变稠 - [transitive] condense something (into something)
to put something such as a piece of writing into fewer words; to put a lot of information into a small space 简缩；压缩（文字、信息等）
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French condenser or Latin condensare, from condensus ‘very thick’, from con- ‘completely’ + densus ‘dense’.