REFRIGERANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does refrigerant mean? 

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

1. any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator)

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

• REFRIGERANT (adjective)
  The adjective REFRIGERANT has 1 sense:

1. causing cooling or freezing

  Familiarity information: REFRIGERANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFRIGERANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

substance (a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties)

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

cryogen (a liquid that boils at below -160 C and is used as a refrigerant)

Derivation:

refrigerant (causing cooling or freezing)

refrigerate (cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator)

• REFRIGERANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing cooling or freezing

Synonyms:

refrigerant; refrigerating

Context example:

a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide

Similar:

cold (having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration)

Derivation:

refrigerant (any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator))

refrigerate (cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator)

refrigerate (preserve by chilling)

 Context examples 

A solid form of carbon dioxide used as a refrigerant.

(Dry Ice, NCI Thesaurus)

Carbon Tetrachloride is used as a solvent for oils and fats, as a refrigerant and as a dry-cleaning agent.

(Carbon Tetrachloride, NCI Thesaurus)

A colorless volatile poisonous liquid compound used as a solvent, fuel, aerosol, propellant and refrigerant.

(Dimethyl Ether, NCI Thesaurus)

Formerly used as an inhaled anesthetic during surgery, the primary use of chloroform today is in industry, where it is used as a solvent and in the production of the refrigerant freon.

(Chloroform, NCI Thesaurus)

Chlorofluorocarbons, the ozone-eating refrigerants banned by the Montreal Protocol, are declining.

(Warming due to carbon dioxide jumped by half in 25 years, NOAA)