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COOLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mechanism for keeping something cool
Example:
the cooling was overhead fans
Synonyms:
cooling; cooling system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cooling" is a kind of...):
mechanism (device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function)
Meronyms (parts of "cooling"):
water pump (the pump in the cooling system of an automobile that cause the water to circulate)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cooling"):
air conditioner; air conditioning (a system that keeps air cool and dry)
coolant system (a cooling system that uses a fluid to transfer heat from one place to another)
cooling tower (a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant)
evaporative cooler (a cooling system that cools by evaporation)
refrigeration system (a cooling system for chilling or freezing (usually for preservative purposes))
Derivation:
cool (make cool or cooler)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature
Synonyms:
chilling; cooling; temperature reduction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("cooling" is a kind of...):
temperature change (a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cooling"):
freeze; freezing (the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid)
heat dissipation (dissipation of heat)
infrigidation; refrigeration (the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes)
Derivation:
cool (loose heat)
cool (make cool or cooler)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb cool
Context examples:
The whole "cycle" from the initial cooling to the further cooling is a feedback.
(Climatic feedback mechanisms, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
A disorder characterized by an uncomfortable and temporary sensation of intense body warmth, flushing, sometimes accompanied by sweating upon cooling.
(Hot Flashes, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
Menthol causes a cooling sensation when eaten or put on the skin and it acts as a mild pain killer.
(Menthol, NCI Dictionary)
A process to isolate plasma proteins by cooling the plasma to form a precipitate.
(Plasma Protein Cryoprecipitation, NCI Thesaurus)
About noon I stopped at the captain's door with some cooling drinks and medicines.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A device designed either to drive a volatile solvent from a material or to cause vaporization within a heating/cooling system.
(Evaporator Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
This mucus can cause problems in digestion, breathing, and body cooling.
(Cystic Fibrosis, NCI Dictionary)
In surgery, the cooling of a tissue, organ, or body part after its blood supply has been reduced or cut off.
(Cold ischemia, NCI Dictionary)
The process of cooling and storing cells, tissues, or organs at very low or freezing temperatures to save them for future use.
(Cryopreservation, NCI Dictionary)
Separation of a product from a saturated solution by cooling the liquid or adding precipitants which lower the solubility of the desired product so that it forms crystals.
(Crystallization Purification, NCI Thesaurus)
