freezingとは意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

freezing (comparative more freezing, superlative most freezing)

1. (literally) Suffering or causing frost
2. (by extension, chiefly hyperbolic) Very cold
3. (with above or below) Zero °C, the freezing point of water.
   • 1998, Bruce Jakosky, The Search for Life on Other Planets‎^[1]:

     Despite this, the average temperature at the surface [of Mars] is 50–60K below freezing, making it hard to imagine that any plants or animals could survive.

同意語

• (字義どおりに): frosty, frigorific
• (very cold): ice-cold, icy

派生語

• subfreezing

名詞

freezing (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 freezings)

1. (uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
   • 1829, James Macauley, The natural, statistical, and civil history of the state of New York:

     Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings. The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.

2. (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.

同意語

• frost

関連する語

• freeze-dry
• freezer