quench

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst.

   “The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.”

2. fiil To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).

   “[…] others ſaying, the fire would ceaſe as ſoon as it had vent, uncovered a great part of the houſe, breaking down the roofs, and destroying all that ſtood in their way. None of them went about to quench the fire, but all were employed in pulling down the houſe, […]”

3. fiil To cool rapidly by direct contact with liquid coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.

   “The swordsmith quenched the sword in an oil bath so that it wouldn't shatter.”

4. fiil To terminate or greatly diminish (a chemical reaction) by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
5. fiil To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.

   “A suitable method to prepare a system out of equilibrium in order to study the ensuing dynamics is to quench the system, i.e., to change its parameters abruptly.”

6. fiil To rapidly terminate the operation of a superconducting electromagnet by causing part or all of the magnet's windings to enter the normal, resistive state.

   “If someone is pinned against the MRI magnet by a ferromagnetic object, you may need to quench the magnet in order to free them.”

7. isim The act of quenching something; the fact of being quenched.

   “Then the MacManus [i.e. a ship] went down. The sudden quench of the white light was how I knew it.”

8. isim The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.
9. isim A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system.