Definition of refrigerant Refrigerant

/ɹɪfɹɪˈʤɚʌnt/ - [rifrijerunt] - re•frig•er•ant

We found 11 definitions of refrigerant from 6 different sources.

What does refrigerant mean?

Noun Plural: refrigerants
refrigerant - any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator)
		substance the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; "DNA is the substance of our genes"
Adjective
refrigerant - causing cooling or freezing; "a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide"
		refrigerating
		cold lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave"

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refrigerant (Noun)
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.
refrigerant (Noun)
That which makes cool or cold, such as a medicine for allaying the symptoms of fever.
refrigerant (Adjective)
That cools or freezes; allaying heat or fever.

refrigerant (a.)
Cooling; allaying heat or fever.
refrigerant (n.)
That which makes to be cool or cold; specifically, a medicine or an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively.

refrigerant
A substance that by undergoing a change in phase (liquid to gas, gas to liquid) releases or absorbs a large latent heat in relation to its volume, and thus effects a considerable cooling effect.
refrigerant
Causing cold or cooling.

refrigerant
rē-frij′ė-rant, adj. making cold: cooling: refreshing.—n. that which cools.—v.t. Rēfrig′erāte, to make cold: to cool: to refresh.—n. Rēfrigerā′tion.—adjs. Rēfrig′erātive, Rēfrig′erātory, cooling: refreshing.—ns. Rēfrig′erātor, an apparatus for preserving food by keeping it at a low temperature: an ice-safe; Rēfrig′erātor-car, a freight-car fitted for preserving meat, &c., during transmission, by means of cold; Rēfrig′erātory, a cooler: a vessel or apparatus for cooling, used in brewing, &c.; Rēfrigē′rium (obs.), cooling refreshment. [Fr.,—L. re-, denoting change of state, frigerāre, -ātum, to cool, frigus, cold.]