Thickening
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈθɪkənɪŋ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Thickening is a noun meaning The process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous.
Meaning
The process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous.
More Meanings
- A substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce.
- A thickened part of a structure.
- present participle and gerund of thicken
- Beginning to thicken, becoming thicker.
Example Sentences
[…] the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts […]
They disappear at once on slightly relaxing the air-pressure, whilst true incipient thickenings of the surface remain white and unpliably stiff.
From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.
Word Forms
- thickenings
Synonyms for thickening
Depending on context, synonyms include complex, gathering, deepening, inspissation, thickener.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include inspissation, deepening, intensifying, complex, gathering, thickness.
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