liquefaction.

1. The process of turning a gas or solid into liquid, including breakdown of tissue into fluid material.

2. A process in which saturated soil loses much of its strength as increased pore-water pressure reduces effective stress.

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Words that belong together

• gas liquefaction
• tissue liquefaction

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The notes recorded tissue liquefaction around the damaged area.

Gas liquefaction required cooling conditions the improvised equipment could not maintain.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural liquefactions for distinct events. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.