Cōn'den-sā'tion, n.

n. [Lat. condensatio.] 1. The act of making more dense or compact; the closer union of parts; consolidation; as, condensation of style. He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay. 2. (Chem. & Physics.) The act of reducing to another and denser form, as gas or vapor to the condition of a liquid or solid; as, the condensation of vapor into rain. Surface condensation, the system of condensing steam by cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water.