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[syn: curdling, clotting, coagulation]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Coagulation \Co*ag`u*la"tion\, n. [L. coagulatio.]
1. The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike,
insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of
chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of
freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or
acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat.
Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body
into an insoluble modification.
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2. The substance or body formed by coagulation.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
coagulation
n 1: the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid [syn:
curdling, clotting, coagulation]