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cool one's heels |
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coolant
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| cooley's anaemia
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coolant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun coolant has 1 sense
- coolant(n = noun.substance) Array - a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another; "he added more coolant to the car's radiator"; "the atomic reactor used a gas coolant"; "lathe operators use an emulsion of oil and water as a coolant for the cutting tool" is a kind of agent, fluid
Derived forms verb cool2, verb cool1
CIDE DICTIONARY
coolant, n.
a fluid (gas or liquid) used to cool a device by transferring heat away from one part to another. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
coolant, n.
1 a cooling agent, esp. fluid, to remove heat from an engine, nuclear reactor, etc.
2 a fluid used to lessen the friction of a cutting tool.
1 a cooling agent, esp. fluid, to remove heat from an engine, nuclear reactor, etc.
2 a fluid used to lessen the friction of a cutting tool.
Etymology
COOL + -ANT after lubricant
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