(particle physics) The proposed situation in which a ghost (an excitation of a field with a wrong sign of the kinetic term) acquires a vacuum expectation value, spontaneously breaking Lorentz invariance.

(steam engine) An injection condenser in which the steam is condensed by a spray of water which mingles with it.

(physics) Any form of matter, such as a solid or liquid, in which there are strong interactions between neighbouring atoms

The intramolecular chemical reaction of diesters with base to give β-ketoesters.

(mathematics) A method of computing the determinants of a square matrix by constructing a series of sequentially smaller matrices.

(archaic) compressed air

plural of condensed milk

(topology) (said to be "of" a given subset of a topological space) a point whose every neighborhood contains uncountably many points belonging to the given subset

A condenser for a steam engine, in which the vacuum is maintained by the downward flow of water through a tall vertical pipe.

plural of condensation point