colliquefaction

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English

Etymology

From Latin colliquefactus (“melted”), from col- + liquefacere.

Noun

colliquefaction (countable and uncountable, plural colliquefactions)

  1. (obsolete) A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      the incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “colliquefaction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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