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The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.

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  1. n. The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.
  2. n. The state of being liquid.
  3. n. The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.
  4. n. the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid
  5. 1. The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat. 2. The state of being liquid. 3. (Chem. Physics) The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.
  6. The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to aliquid by cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen orhydrogen.
  7. n:100 n. the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid