colliquefaction
English
Etymology
From Latin colliquefactus (“melted”), from col- + liquefacere.
Noun
colliquefaction (countable and uncountable, plural colliquefactions)
- A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
- Francis Bacon
- the incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction
- Francis Bacon
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for colliquefaction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)