Intumescence

Word INTUMESCENCE
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Definitions and meanings of "Intumescence"

What do we mean by intumescence?

The act or process of swelling or the condition of being swollen. noun

A swollen organ or body part. noun

The state or process of swelling or enlarging, as with heat; expansion; tumidity. noun

A swollen or tumid growth or mass; tumefaction. noun

The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat. noun

Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor. noun

The process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen noun

An instance of such swelling noun

Swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) noun

The increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) noun

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The word "intumescence" in example sentences

British America and the north of the United States, this phenomenon is explained by the flat conformation of the territories bordering on the pole, and on which there is no intumescence of the soil to oppose any obstacle to the north winds; here, in Lincoln Island, this explanation would not suffice. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Here, an intumescence which was to become a mountain, there, an abyss which was to be filled with an ocean or a sea. ❋ Unknown (2003)

For our present purpose hypertrophy may be considered as it affects the axile or the foliar organs, and also according to the way in which the increased size is manifested, as by increased thickness or swelling -- intumescence, or by augmented length-elongation, by expansion or flattening, or, lastly, by the formation of excrescences or outgrowths, which may be classed under the head of luxuriance or enation. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species. ❋ Various (N/A)

We thank thee, O God, that the South has not kept pace with New York's super-estheticism -- that when our women find themselves in an "interesting condition" they seek the seclusion of the home instead of telephoning for a reporter and a chalk artist and exploiting their intumescence in the public prints. ❋ Unknown (1905)

In the northern hemisphere, or at any rate in the part occupied by British America and the north of the United States, this phenomenon is explained by the flat conformation of the territories bordering on the pole, and on which there is no intumescence of the soil to oppose any obstacle to the north winds; here, in Lincoln Island, this explanation would not suffice. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

If in one of these points the barometer stands a few lines lower than in the other, the water will rise where it finds the least pressure of air, and this local intumescence will continue, till, from the effect of the wind, the equilibrium of the air is restored. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Waves of commotion have been investigated by means of the pendulum and the seismometer* with tolerable accuracy in respect to their direction and total intensity, but by no means with reference to the internal nature of their alternations and their periodic intumescence. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)

Total and sudden transformations of a language seldom happen; conquests and migrations are now very rare; but there are other causes of change, which, though slow in their operation, and invisible in their progress, are, perhaps, as much superiour to human resistance, as the revolutions of the sky, or intumescence of the tide. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

Total and sudden transformations of a language seldom happen; conquests and migrations are now very rare: but there are other causes of change, which, though slow in their operation, and invisible in their progress, are perhaps as much superior to human resistance, as the revolutions of the sky, or intumescence of the tide. ❋ Edmund Spenser (1730)

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