LIQUEFACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liquefaction mean? 

• LIQUEFACTION (noun)
  The noun LIQUEFACTION has 1 sense:

1. the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid

  Familiarity information: LIQUEFACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIQUEFACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("liquefaction" is a kind of...):

phase change; phase transition; physical change; state change (a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liquefaction"):

dissolution; dissolving (the process of going into solution)

Derivation:

liquefy (become liquid or fluid when heated)

liquefy (make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating)

liquefy (become liquid)

 Context examples 

This gene is involved in the hydrolysis of high molecular mass seminal vesicle protein, resulting in the liquefaction of seminal coagulum.

(KLK3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes prostate-specific antigen protein, plays a role in the liquefaction of seminal coagulum via hydrolysis of semenogelin-1.

(KLK3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

No liquefaction was identified uphill of the aqueduct.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

Damage maps revealed widespread liquefaction below the aqueduct.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

Soil liquefaction usually occurs in flat landscapes with wet, sandy or silty ground, such as coastal plains.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

Soil liquefaction, which causes this kind of landslide, occurs when the shaking from a large earthquake rips through moist, loose soil, overpowering the friction that normally holds dirt particles together.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

In Palu, although early reporting blamed most of the estimated 2,000 fatalities on a tsunami, surveys soon showed that soil-liquefaction landslides caused at least as much damage as the ocean waves did.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

Trees played a critical role in stopping the slides, and the researchers suggest that planting more trees - perhaps interspersed with rice fields - in areas that are intensively irrigated might reduce the risk of soil liquefaction.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)