Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it.

    Kühlung

    охлажде́ниеoxlaždénije

  2. (countable, uncountable)The process of preserving something by cooling.

    Tiefkühlung

    замора́живаниеzamoráživanije, охлажде́ниеoxlaždénije

    the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes

  3. (countable, uncountable)The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes.

    deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Without electricity, medications requiring refrigeration could spoil.

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  2. Damiano stole some ice cream from the refrigeration unit.

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  3. Without electricity, maintaining refrigeration for vaccines and medications is impossible.

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  4. The accident was caused by a fault in the refrigeration system of the appliance.

    ruАвария была вызвана неисправностью в системе охлаждения устройства.

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  5. Tom doesn't believe in refrigeration.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it:
process of preserving something by cooling:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it:
process of preserving something by cooling:

Origin

From Latin refrigero. Morphologically refrigerate + -ion.

From Latin refrigero. Morphologically refrigerate + -ion.

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Forms

plural: refrigerations
Singularrefrigeration
Pluralrefrigerations

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes:infrigidation

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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