Associations to the word «Condenser»

Wiktionary

CONDENSER, noun. A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.
CONDENSER, noun. (electronics) A capacitor.
CONDENSER, noun. (optics) A lens (or combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.
CONDENSER, noun. A dental instrument used to pack filling into a cavity in a tooth.

Dictionary definition

CONDENSER, noun. An electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge.
CONDENSER, noun. An apparatus that converts vapor into liquid.
CONDENSER, noun. A hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat.
CONDENSER, noun. Lens used to concentrate light on an object.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope