Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of liquefying.
- noun The state of being liquefied.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of liquefying, or of rendering or becoming liquid; reduction to a liquid state.
- noun The state of being liquefied or melted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.
- noun The state of being liquid.
- noun (Chem. Physics) The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Process of, or state of having been, made
liquid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"It is extremely difficult to get around owing to what they call 'liquefaction' of the ground and sink holes."
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Along the Rose Canyon Fault is something scientists called liquefaction, which is when the ground is considered sandy or soft and it acts like gelatin during an earthquake.
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Along the Rose Canyon Fault is something scientists called liquefaction, which is when the ground is considered sandy or soft and it acts like gelatin during an earthquake.
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Along the Rose Canyon Fault is something scientists called liquefaction, which is when the ground is considered sandy or soft and it acts like gelatin during an earthquake.
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Along the Rose Canyon Fault is something scientists called liquefaction, which is when the ground is considered sandy or soft and it acts like gelatin during an earthquake.
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Along the Rose Canyon Fault is something scientists called liquefaction, which is when the ground is considered sandy or soft and it acts like gelatin during an earthquake.
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Along the Rose Canyon Fault is something scientists called liquefaction, which is when the ground is considered sandy or soft and it acts like gelatin during an earthquake.
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Along the Rose Canyon Fault is something scientists called liquefaction, which is when the ground is considered sandy or soft and it acts like gelatin during an earthquake.
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Along the Rose Canyon Fault is something scientists called liquefaction, which is when the ground is considered sandy or soft and it acts like gelatin during an earthquake.
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Experts said another anticipated fallout from the liquefaction is a decline in Urayasu's property prices.
Quake Bogs Down a Tokyo Suburb Kana Inagaki 2011
qroqqa commented on the word liquefaction
Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
—Herrick, 'Upon Julia's Clothes'
July 15, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word liquefaction
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free
O how that glittering taketh me!
October 26, 2010
MaryW commented on the word liquefaction
National Academies Press, State of the Art and Practice in the Assessment of Earthquake-Induced Soil Liquefaction and Its Consequences (2016)December 27, 2016