Rarefaction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAREFACTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of rarefying
• reduction in the density of something, especially air or a gas
• the lessening of density of tissue, especially of nervous tissue or bone
• The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.
• a decrease in the density of something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the action or process of rarefying

Words related to RAREFACTION

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Words that contain RAREFACTION

rarefactions17 rarefactional18

How to use RAREFACTION in a sentence

• The source of mechanical power is the sun which exhales vapors that descend in rain, to turn mills, or which causes winds to blow by the unequal rarefaction of the atmosphere.
• The weight of the atmosphere is not only affected by rarefaction, but by currents of air, which give it a sudden density or rarity.
• According to the wave theory, a condensation and rarefaction are necessary to constitute a sound wave.
• He maintains, in opposition to Sir Humphry Davy, that the Davy lamp acts by its heat and rarefaction, and not from Sir H.
• They can not be kept very long in the piercing air of the mountains, its rarefaction being as injurious to them as to human beings.
• Brunt was clearly aware of the work of many scientists, notably Boyle, upon the nature and rarefaction of the air.
• The pulse of condensation and rarefaction which travels the length of the wire is called a wave, although it bears little or no resemblance to the familiar water wave.
• I now began to experience, at intervals, severe pain in the head, especially about the ears, due to the rarefaction of the air.
• A sound wave is one complete condensation and rarefaction of the transmitting medium.

Similar words containing RAREFAC without suffix tion

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