torrefaction

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Drying or roasting; especially an anaerobic heat treatment to make wood waterproof.

   “During this operation the insects are constantly stirred about with a tin ladle; and sometimes water is sprinkled upon them, to prevent absolute torrefaction, which would destroy the colour, and reduce them to a coal ;”

2. isim The act or process of subjecting something to heat or to highly acidic substances.

   “They now began by a change of diet and other precautions to prepare themselves to encounter the torrefaction of a tropical climate, and in somewhat more than a fortnight arrived in Carlisle Bay in the island of Barbadoes, which was appointed the general rendezvous of the expedition.”

3. isim An angry outburst; vituperation.

   “Under such torrefaction the doctor suffered an ebullition of his anger and he replied : “You are rather pachycephalic not to understand what I have said.”