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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   refrigeration by storing a liquid at its boiling point for the pressure at which it is stored, so that, as vapour boils off, heat for the phase change cools the remaining liquid uncountable

Etymology

From auto- + refrigeration.

Related phrases

boiling point

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