cooling

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun cooling has 2 senses

cooling(n = noun.process) chilling, temperature reduction - the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature; Array

has particulars: freeze, freezing, heat dissipation, infrigidation, refrigeration

is a kind of temperature change

Derived forms verb cool₂, verb cool₁

cooling(n = noun.artifact) cooling system - a mechanism for keeping something cool; "the cooling was overhead fans"

has particulars: air conditioner, air conditioning, coolant system, cooling tower, evaporative cooler, refrigeration system

is a kind of mechanism

has parts: water pump

Derived form verb cool₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cooling, p. a.

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]

Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

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cooling

Refrigeration

N refrigeration, infrigidation, reduction of temperature, cooling, congelation, conglaciation, ice, solidification, ice box (refrigerator), extincteur, fire annihilator, amianth, amianthus, earth- flax, mountain-flax, flexible asbestos, fireman, fire brigade (incombustibility), incombustibility, incombustibleness, (insulation), air conditioning, central air conditioning, air conditioner, fan, attic fan, dehumidifier, cooled, frozen out, cooling, frigorific, refrigeration, infrigidation, reduction of temperature, cooling, congelation, conglaciation, ice, solidification, ice box (refrigerator), extincteur, fire annihilator, amianth, amianthus, earth- flax, mountain-flax, flexible asbestos, fireman, fire brigade (incombustibility), incombustibility, incombustibleness, (insulation), air conditioning, central air conditioning, air conditioner, fan, attic fan, dehumidifier, cooled, frozen out, cooling, frigorific.

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