Definitions for coagulate

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coagulate co·ag·u·late

Spelling: [verb koh-ag-yuh-leyt; adjective koh- Coagulate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 343 anagrams from letters in coagulate (aaceglotu).

Definitions for coagulate

adjective

1. Obsolete. coagulated.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to change from a fluid into a thickened mass; curdle; congeal:
2. Biology. (of blood) to form a clot.
3. Physical Chemistry. (of colloidal particles) to flocculate or cause to flocculate by adding an electrolyte to an electrostatic colloid.

Origin of coagulate

1350-1400 for earlier past participle senses “solidified, clotted,” 1605-15 for def 1; Middle English Latin coāgulāt(us) (past participle of coāgulāre), equivalent to coāgul(um) Examples for coagulate

If the stock is not reduced and more jelly is desired, unflavored gelatine may be dissolved and added to coagulate the liquid.

The blood, though not moving, being in contact with living vessels, need not coagulate.

It would be much better to keep yellow latex apart, and coagulate it separately, if at all possible.

The disintegrated mass of rabbits commenced, as it were, to solidify, to coagulate.

In another of his works he remarks that the blood in certain diseased conditions will not coagulate.

The egg white begins to coagulate at 134 degrees Fahrenheit, and it becomes white and jellylike at 160 degrees.

With the temperature at the right point, rennet is added to coagulate the milk, or form the curd.

That protein is present in both the yolk and the white is apparent from the fact that they coagulate when heat is applied.

Rennet is added to the milk to coagulate it, and then the curd, from which nearly all the water is removed, is allowed to ripen.

If the hot water is applied first, the heat will cause the egg to coagulate and cling to the dishes.