colliquefaction

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noun

A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.

OriginLatin colliquefactus →
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Meanings

nouncolliquefaction (countable and uncountable, plural colliquefactions)

plural colliquefactions

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableA melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.

    the incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction

    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 […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latincolliquefactus“melted”
  2. Englishcolliquefaction

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

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APA

colliquefaction. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colliquefaction

MLA

“colliquefaction.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colliquefaction. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “colliquefaction,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colliquefaction.

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