When a gas or vapour condenses, or is condensed, it changes into a liquid. Water vapour condenses to form clouds The compressed gas is cooled and condenses into a liquid
If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts. We have learnt how to condense serious messages into short, self-contained sentences
undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature" compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan" develop due to condensation; "All our planets condensed out of the same material" become more compact or concentrated; "Her feelings condensed" cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid; "The cold air condensed the steam" remove water from; "condense the milk
[ k&n-'den(t)s ] (verb.) 15th century. Middle English, from Middle French condenser, from Latin condensare, from com- + densare to make dense, from densus dense.