Meanings
plural liquefactions · alternative liquefication · alternative liquification · alternative liquifaction
- countableuncountableThe process of being, or state of having been, made liquid (from either a solid or a gas).
Whenas in silks my Julia goes, / Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows / That liquefaction of her clothes.
1648, Robert Herrick, “Upon Julia's Clothes”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], →OCLC; republished in Poems By Robert Herrick, London: The Gresham Publishing Company, n.d., page 19 - countableuncountableThe liquid or semiliquid that results from this process.
The student army carried on shovelling liquefaction and the women in the homes nearby fed them without a thought.
2019, Frances McCaughey -, Carrig Of Dromara1 more example
Where we might usually have applied dressings and put bandages on, many people weren't able to keep dressings on their cats clean and dry because houses and gardens were full of liquefaction.
2017, Jacob Bull, Tora Holmberg, Cecilia Åsberg, Animal Places: Lively Cartographies of Human-Animal Relations
Origin
- Medieval Latinliquefactiō
- Middle Frenchliquefaction
- Middle Englishliquefaction
- Englishliquefaction
From Middle English liquefaction, from Middle French liquefaction (modern French liquéfaction), from Medieval Latin liquefactiō.
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Bulgarian втечняване, стапяне
- втечняване (vtečnjavane)Process of being made liquid
- стапяне (stapjane)Process of being made liquid
Catalan liqüefacció
- liqüefaccióProcess of being made liquid
Czech zkapalnění
- zkapalněníProcess of being made liquid
Dutch vloeibaar maken
- vloeibaar makenProcess of being made liquid
Finnish nesteytys, nesteyttäminen
- nesteytysProcess of being made liquid
- nesteyttäminenProcess of being made liquid
- nesteytyminenProcess of being made liquid
French liquéfaction
- liquéfactionProcess of being made liquid
German Verflüssigung
- VerflüssigungProcess of being made liquid
Greek υγροποίηση
- υγροποίηση (ygropoíisi)Process of being made liquid
Hebrew התנזלות
- התנזלותProcess of being made liquid
Italian liquefazione
- liquefazioneProcess of being made liquid
Japanese 液化
- 液化 (ekika)Process of being made liquid
Polish upłynnianie, upłynnienie
- upłynnianieProcess of being made liquid
- upłynnienieProcess of being made liquid
Punjabi ترلاوݨ
- ترلاوݨ (trlāvṇ)Process of being made liquid
Russian сжиже́ние
- сжиже́ние (sžižénije)Process of being made liquid
Spanish licuefacción
- licuefacciónProcess of being made liquid
Swahili kuyeyusha
- kuyeyushaProcess of being made liquid
Tagalog sadanum
- sadanumProcess of being made liquid
Cite this entry
liquefaction. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/liquefaction
“liquefaction.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/liquefaction. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “liquefaction,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/liquefaction.
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