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refrigeration|rɪfrɪdʒəˈreɪʃən|
Also 5 refrygeracion, 6 -cyon.
[ad. L. refrīgerātiōn-em, n. of action f. refrīgerāre to refrigerate. Cf. F. réfrigération (16th c. in Littré).]
1. a. The action of refrigerating, cooling, or freezing; the process of becoming cold.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. viii. iii. in Ashm. (1652) 171 So hyt rejoysyth wyth refrygeracion I the tell. 1555Eden Decades 263 Suche thynges..are hyndered by refrigeration or coulde. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 59 Irons heated in the fire..contract a verticity in their refrigeration. 1684Boyle Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod. vi. 104 These thin flaws, which upon the slow refrigeration of the Stones..might lock up the tinging Particles. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. v. 185 That refreshment and pleasing refrigeration of the air, which is sometimes produced in other climates by rains. 1847T. Milner Gallery Nature (1855) 296 The vapours cannot become visible by refrigeration. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. ii. 60 By nocturnal refrigeration, the aqueous vapour of the air is condensed.
b. Geol. The gradual cooling of the earth from natural causes.
1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 71 That the successive cooling or refrigeration of the earth is a groundless notion. 1841J. Trimmer Pract. Geol. 469 The secular refrigeration of the heated interior of our planet. 1873tr. Schmidt's Desc. & Darwinism 11 We may..infer that, at a definite epoch of refrigeration, life appeared in a natural manner.
c. The freezing of provisions for the purpose of preserving them.
1881Marine Engineer 1 Jan. 225 The refrigeration of provisions for transhipment either as a cargo for sale in England, or simply as provisions in our large passenger liners, becomes daily of more importance.
2. Reduction of heat in the body (now only Med.); † cooling and refreshing of the blood or spirits.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) i. iv. D ij, The water gyueth refrygeracyon, The baptym taketh & coleth the inclynacyon. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 100 By smelling, they prevent the air that should come unto them for refrigeration. 1635D. Person Varieties i. 35, I could allow for fishes a kind of respiration called refrigeration. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. xxxviii. §11 (1689) 247 Though they receive some refrigeration by their Guills, yet that refrigeration is not so continual, as when it is by breathing. 1833Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 246/1 Refrigeration, to a certain extent, must of necessity result immediately from immersion in the cold bath. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 229 Actual refrigeration, and bleeding.
transf.1606J. Carpenter Solomon's Solace ii. 8 We hoped for some consolatory refrigeration and ease.
3. attrib. and Comb., as refrigeration company, refrigeration machinery, refrigeration unit.
1976National Observer (U.S.) 28 Aug. 7/2 Les Whitely, who owns a refrigeration company in the San Francisco Bay area.
1943J. S. Huxley TVA 30 The production of new refrigeration machinery. 1969Coast to Coast 1967–68 103 The Natwicks sat on the front veranda to watch the traffic..the semi-trailers and refrigeration units, the decent old-style sedans, [etc.]. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 1b/4 We have two refrigeration units in our house. |