refrigerant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A substance used in a heat cycle that undergoes a phase change between gas and liquid to allow the cooling, as in refrigerators, air conditioners, etc.
2. isim That which makes cool or cold, such as a medicine for allaying the symptoms of fever.

   “[…] taking a blue and white soda-powder, [she] mingled the same in water, and encouraged me to drink the result. It might be a specific for seasickness, but it was not for home-sickness. The fiz was a mockery, and the saline refrigerant struck a colder chill to my despondent heart.”

3. sıfat That cools or freezes; providing relief from heat or fever.

   “Here on a bank, refrigerant seat, Screen’d from the Sun’s o’ercoming heat, Some stretch’d at ease the hours employ, In Bacchus’s unbounded joy,”