Definitions for freezing
freez·ing

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. freeze, freezing(noun)

   the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. freezing(Noun)

   The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

2. freezing(Noun)

   The action of numbing with anesthetics.

3. freezing(Adjective)

   Suffering or causing frost

4. freezing(Adjective)

   Very cold

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Freezing

   of Freeze

2. Freezing(adj)

   tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner

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1. Freezing

   Freezing or solidification is a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point. All known liquids, except liquid helium, freeze when the temperature is lowered enough. Liquid helium remains liquid at atmospheric pressure even at absolute zero, and can be solidified only under pressure. For most substances, the melting and freezing points are the same temperature; however, certain substances possess differing solid–liquid transition temperatures. For example, agar displays a hysteresis in its melting and freezing temperatures. It melts at 85 °C and solidifies from 31 °C to 40 °C.

U.S. National Library of Medicine(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Freezing

   Liquids transforming into solids by the removal of heat.

British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'freezing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4256

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of freezing in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of freezing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of freezing in a Sentence

1. Briony Horgan:

   Here on Earth, we find silica deposition in glaciers which are characteristic of melting water, on Mars, we can identify similar silica deposits in younger areas, but we can also see older areas which are similar to deep soils from warm climates on Earth. This leads us to believe that on Mars 3 to 4 billion years ago, we had a general slow trend from warm to cold, with periods of thawing and freezing. If this is so, it is important in the search for possible life on Mars.

2. James Overland:

   Thus, warmer and moister marine air from Atlantic traveled over the Pole and raised temps to near or at freezing for a few hours. However, the warm advection event was short lived and temps are closer to normal well below 0. if you think of those two storm centers as kind of a dumbbell with the winds blowing around them, it brought all that warm air up from the Atlantic to near the North Pole.

3. Isabelle Demeestere:

   This is an important breakthrough in the field because children are the patients who are most likely to benefit ... in the future, when they are diagnosed with diseases that require treatment that can destroy ovarian function, freezing ovarian tissue is the only ... option for preserving their fertility.

4. Ric Spooner:

   The potential risk for prices is for the downside as freezing output at current levels would be more of a symbolic act rather than a real market intervention. But you need to be open to surprises in this market.

5. Bob Corker:

   Is it realistic that he’s just willy-nilly going to do that? Absolutely not, but, you know, progress can be made, freezing the program, who knows what he’s — what his ambitions are as it relates to South Korea.

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