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calescent

[kuh-les-uhnt] / kəˈlɛs ənt /








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And: “Scottsdale’s dry climate contradicts the clammy calescent of New Guinean condensation.”

From Washington Post Mar. 26, 2018

Tisdale favors transitional words like quiescent, nascent, and calescent to make sentences quiver with dreamlike mutability; they are always changing and becoming.

From Slate Apr. 8, 2016

Chefs — like Aaron Silverman behind the calescent Rose’s Luxury — are opening places where they live.

From New York Times Oct. 20, 2014

This calescent mode of proceeding was adopted with the idea of exciting a counter-irritation in the diseased part.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various

It should be brought up slowly to just above its calescent or hardening temperature.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)




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