cooling
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkuːlɪŋ/
Verb
cooling
- present participle of cool
Noun
cooling (plural coolings)
- A decrease in temperature.
- Refrigeration.
Derived terms
- adiabatic cooling
- district cooling
- dynamic cooling
- evaporative cooling
- expansion cooling
- free-cooling
- global cooling
- house cooling party
- laser cooling
- Peltier cooling
Translations
decrease in temperature
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refrigeration
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Adjective
cooling (comparative more cooling, superlative most cooling)
- That cools.
- (Asian English). Of food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 187:
- "Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?"
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Synonyms
- (that cools): frigorific
- (serving to cool or calm the body):
Antonyms
- (serving to cool or calm the body): heaty
Derived terms
- cooling board
- cooling curve
- cooling glasses
- cooling-off period
- cooling pond
- cooling rack
- cooling tower
Translations
that cools
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References
“cooling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
- locoing