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complicate, refine, rarify, elaborateverb
make more complex, intricate, or richer
"refine a design or pattern"
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Rarefaction is the reduction of an item's density, the opposite of compression. Like compression, which can travel in waves (sound waves, for instance), rarefaction waves also exist in nature. A common rarefaction wave is the area of low relative pressure following a shock wave (see picture). Rarefaction waves expand with time (much like sea waves spread out as they reach a beach); in most cases rarefaction waves keep the same overall profile ('shape') at all times throughout the wave's movement: it is a self-similar expansion. Each part of the wave travels at the local speed of sound, in the local medium. This expansion behaviour contrasts with that of pressure increases, which gets narrower with time until they steepen into shock waves. When angle of incidence is greater than angle of refraction, then light travels from denser to rarer medium. When angle of incidence is smaller than angle of refraction then light travels from rarer to denser medium
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rarify
To rarify is to make something less dense or to become less dense, often related to a gas or air. It can also mean to make something more refined, intellectual, or upper-class. Additionally, it can refer to making something less frequently occurring, therefore making it scarce or rare.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of rarify in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
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The numerical value of rarify in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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