refrigerant

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A substance used in a heat cycle that undergoes a phase change between gas and liquid to allow the cooling, as in refrigerators, air conditioners, etc.
  2. That which makes cool or cold, such as a medicine for allaying the symptoms of fever.
    — 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Dublin: Whitestone et al., Volume 2, Lecture 32, p. 403, […] never give warning that you are about to be pathetic; and call upon your hearers, as is sometimes done, to follow you in the attempt. This almost never fails to prove a refrigerant to passion.
形容词 adj.
  1. That cools or freezes; providing relief from heat or fever. obsolete
    — 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylua Syluarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, London: William Lee, VIII. Century, p. 204, This Experiment may be transferred vnto the Cure of Gangrenes, either Comming of themselues, or induced by too much Applying of Opiates: Wherein you must beware of Dry Heat, and resort to Things that are Refrigerant, with an Inward Warmth, and Vertue of Cherishing.

词形变化

refrigerants plural more refrigerant comparative most refrigerant superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
nonrefrigerant
相关词
coolant

词源

词源 1
From Latin refrīgerāns, present participle of refrīgerō (“to cool, to refresh”).
词源 2
From Latin refrīgerāns, present participle of refrīgerō (“to cool, to refresh”).
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