Condenser \Con*dens"er\, n.
   1. One who, or that which, condenses.
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   2. (Physic)
      (a) An instrument for condensing air or other elastic
          fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable
          piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve
          to prevent its escape.
      (b) An instrument for concentrating electricity by the
          effect of induction between conducting plates
          separated by a nonconducting plate.
      (c) A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance,
          used to concentrate light upon an object.
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   3. (Chem.) An apparatus for receiving and condensing the
      volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid
      form, by cooling.
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   4. (Steam Engine) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder,
      in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of
      cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine.
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   Achromatic condenser (Optics), an achromatic lens used as a
      condenser.

   Bull's-eye condenser, or Bull's-eye (Optics), a lens of
      short focal distance used for concentrating rays of light.
      

   Injection condenser, a vessel in which steam is condensed
      by the direct contact of water.

   Surface condenser, an apparatus for condensing steam,
      especially the exhaust of a steam engine, by bringing it
      into contact with metallic surface cooled by water or air.
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Surface \Sur"face`\, n. [F. See Sur-, and Face, and cf.
   Superficial.]
   1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth;
      one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face;
      superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth;
      the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.
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            The bright surface of this ethereous mold. --Milton.
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   2. Hence, outward or external appearance.
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            Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no
            deeper than the surface.              --V. Knox.
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   3. (Geom.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without
      thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical
      surface.
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   4. (Fort.) That part of the side which is terminated by the
      flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
      --Stocqueler.
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   Caustic surface, Heating surface, etc. See under
      Caustic, Heating, etc.

   Surface condensation, Surface condenser. See under
      Condensation, and Condenser.

   Surface gauge (Mach.), an instrument consisting of a
      standard having a flat base and carrying an adjustable
      pointer, for gauging the evenness of a surface or its
      height, or for marking a line parallel with a surface.

   Surface grub (Zool.), the larva of the great yellow
      underwing moth (Triphoena pronuba). It is often
      destructive to the roots of grasses and other plants.

   Surface plate (Mach.), a plate having an accurately dressed
      flat surface, used as a standard of flatness by which to
      test other surfaces.

   Surface printing, printing from a surface in relief, as
      from type, in distinction from plate printing, in which
      the ink is contained in engraved lines.
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