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Intumescence   Listen
noun
Intumescence  n.  
1.
The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat. "The intumescence of nations."
2.
Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.





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"Intumescence" Quotes from Famous Books



... amplification, ampliation^; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence^, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion^; obesity &c (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus [Med.]; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation^. dilatability, expansibility. germination, growth, upgrowth^; accretion &c 35; budding, gemmation^. overgrowth, overdistension^; hypertrophy, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various


Words linked to "Intumescence" :   intumesce, chemical change, haematoma, swelling, chemical action, puffiness, hematoma, intumescent, chemical process


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