0 present participle of condense --
1 to reduce something, such as a speech or piece of writing, in length: --
2 to change or make something change from a gas to a liquid or solid state: --
These circulate water from a condensing boiler.
They provide a climax, summing up, condensing and typifying, or mark a change of footing, indicating a closing or a contrast or adding a jocular tone.
The recovery of activity from adult males, however, implies that the condensing activity may not be specific to polytene chromosomes but could be a general chromosome condensation protein.
Cholesterol has a condensing effect on most phospholipid species in the liquid-crystalline state and liquifying effect on phospholipids in the gel state.
Condensing the known information about an entire continent into one book (albeit two volumes) is a daunting task, even when the continent in question is the simplest of the seven.
Behind the seductive image, the design showed great skill at condensing a wide variety of ideas from the latest science in the fields of heat, radiation and bacteriology.
However, it is likely, that in the short term at least, tractable condensing domains will continue to be downwardclosed.
However, about 85% of electrondense bodies were condensing mitochondrial derivatives transforming into electron-dense bodies.
