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FREEZE-DRYING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does freeze-drying mean?

• FREEZE-DRYING (noun)
The noun FREEZE-DRYING has 1 sense:

1. a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes

Familiarity information: FREEZE-DRYING used as a noun is very rare.

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• FREEZE-DRYING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

freeze-drying; lyophilisation; lyophilization

Hypernyms ("freeze-drying" is a kind of...):

dehydration; desiccation; drying up; evaporation (the process of extracting moisture)

freeze; freezing (the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid)

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