MEANING
To cool a substance below its usual phase-transition temperature while keeping it in the higher-temperature phase.
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Words that belong together
- supercool water
- supercooled liquid
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They supercooled the water before introducing a small crystal.
The clear liquid remained supercooled until the container was disturbed.
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Word forms
- Base
- supercool
- Past tense
- supercooled
- Past participle
- supercooled
- Present participle
- supercooling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- supercool
- Present continuous
- am/is/are supercooling
- Present perfect
- have/has supercooled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been supercooling
- Past
- supercooled
- Past continuous
- was/were supercooling
- Past perfect
- had supercooled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been supercooling
- Future
- will supercool
- Future continuous
- will be supercooling
- Future perfect
- will have supercooled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been supercooling
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: supercool; supercools; supercooled; supercooled; supercooling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: supercools.
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