Definitions for regelation

regelation re·ge·la·tion

Spelling: [ree-juh-ley-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌri dʒəˈleɪ ʃən/

Regelation is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 1022 anagrams from letters in regelation (aeegilnort).

Definitions for regelation

noun

  1. a phenomenon in which the freezing point of water is lowered by the application of pressure; the melting and refreezing of ice, at constant temperature, caused by varying the pressure.

Origin of regelation

First recorded in 1855-60; re- + gelation1

Examples for regelation

Faraday, who discovered this phenomenon, named it the regelation of ice.

But a little further down the wound is healed again, and regelation has restored the smooth surface of the glacier.

Two such rings soldered by regelation at a are shown in fig. 14.

Both Professor Helmholtz and I have since agreed to consider the physical cause of regelation an open question.

On both theories, therefore, the strength and quickness of the regelation ought to correspond to the magnitude of the pressure.

It is this same principle of regelation which enables men to cross snow bridges in safety.

But the case is different with regard to the cause of regelation itself.

It was moist and soft, in fact in a condition altogether favourable for the "regelation" of its granules.

I question, however, the statement, that regelation takes place by the freezing of a film of water between the fragments.

This latter question is not once referred to in the memoir in which the regelation theory was first developed.

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