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Refrigeration definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REFRIGERA'TION, n. The act of cooling; the abatement of heat; state of being cooled.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes [syn: refrigeration, infrigidation]
2: deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes; "refrigeration by immersing the patient's body in a cold bath"

Merriam Webster's

noun see refrigerate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Refrigeration Re*frig`er*a"tion (-?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]frig['e]ration, L. refrigeratio.] The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Cooling.

Moby Thesaurus

anhydration, blast-freezing, bottling, brining, canning, corning, curing, dehydration, desiccation, dry-curing, drying, embalming, evaporation, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, irradiation, jerking, marination, mummification, pickling, potting, quick-freezing, salting, seasoning, smoking, stuffing, taxidermy, tinning