condenser

English

Etymology

From condense +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)

Noun

condenser (plural condensers)

1. (process engineering) A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.
2. (electronics, chiefly historical or in compound terms) A capacitor.
3. (optics) A lens (or combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.
4. A dental instrument used to pack filling into a cavity in a tooth.

Derived terms

• Abbe condenser
• condenser mic
• condenser microphone
• Liebig condenser
• reflux condenser
• siphon condenser
• spray condenser
• steam condenser
• straight condenser
• ultracondenser

Translations

device designed to condense a gas into a liquid

• Bulgarian: хла́дник m (hládnik), газоохлади́тел m (gazoohladítel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷凝器 (zh) (lěngníngqì), 凝結器 / 凝结器 (zh) (níngjiéqì)

• Finnish: lauhdutin (fi)
• French: condenseur (fr) m
• German: Kondensator (de) m
• Ido: kondensilo (io)
• Indonesian: kondensor (id)
• Japanese: 復水器 (ja) (ふくすいき, fukusuiki)
• Malay: kondenser
• Maori: whakatōtā
• Navajo: tó bee siil naʼniilkʼáás
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kondensator m

  Nynorsk: kondensator m

• Polish: skraplacz m, kondensator (pl) m
• Russian: конденса́тор (ru) m (kondɛnsátor), газоохлади́тель m (gazooxladítelʹ), холоди́льник (ru) m (xolodílʹnik)
• Tagalog: pangintay
• Turkish: kondansatör (tr)

capacitor — see capacitor

lens designed to gather light

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聚光器 (zh) (jùguāngqì)

• Finnish: kokoojalinssi
• Polish: kondensor m
• Russian: конде́нсор (ru) m (kondɛ́nsor), конденса́тор (ru) m (kondɛnsátor)

dental instrument

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: tiivistin
• Polish: kondensor m

See also

• (device to achieve phase change): degasifier, liquefier

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin condēnsāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.se/

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Verb

condenser

1. (transitive) to condense
2. (transitive) to compress
3. (transitive) to concentrate

Conjugation

Conjugation of condenser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	condenser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	condensant /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		condensé /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	condense /kɔ̃.dɑ̃s/	condenses /kɔ̃.dɑ̃s/	condense /kɔ̃.dɑ̃s/	condensons /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sɔ̃/	condensez /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.se/	condensent /kɔ̃.dɑ̃s/
	imperfect	condensais /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sɛ/	condensais /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sɛ/	condensait /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sɛ/	condensions /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	condensiez /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sje/	condensaient /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	condensai /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.se/	condensas /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sa/	condensa /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sa/	condensâmes /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sam/	condensâtes /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sat/	condensèrent /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	condenserai /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sʁe/	condenseras /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sʁa/	condensera /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sʁa/	condenserons /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	condenserez /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sʁe/	condenseront /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	condenserais /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sʁɛ/	condenserais /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sʁɛ/	condenserait /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sʁɛ/	condenserions /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	condenseriez /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	condenseraient /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	condense /kɔ̃.dɑ̃s/	condenses /kɔ̃.dɑ̃s/	condense /kɔ̃.dɑ̃s/	condensions /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	condensiez /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sje/	condensent /kɔ̃.dɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	condensasse /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sas/	condensasses /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sas/	condensât /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sa/	condensassions /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	condensassiez /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sa.sje/	condensassent /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	condense /kɔ̃.dɑ̃s/	—	condensons /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.sɔ̃/	condensez /kɔ̃.dɑ̃.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• condensation
• dense

Further reading

• “condenser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

condēnser

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of condēnsō