Intumescence
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Intumescence is a noun meaning (uncountable) The process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen.
Meaning
(uncountable) The process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen.
More Meanings
- (countable) An instance of such swelling.
Example Sentences
...but there are other causes of change, which, though slow in their operation, and invisible in their progress, are perhaps as much superior to human resistance, as the revolutions of the sky, or intumescence of the tide.
Word Forms
- intumescences
Synonyms for intumescence
Depending on context, synonyms include inturgescence, tumescence, swellage, turgescence, bloatedness, bloating.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include swelling, extumescence, turgescence, tumefaction, swell, incrassation.
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