Definition of "condense"

condense

/kənˈdɛns/

verb
third-person singular simple present condenses, present participle condensing, simple past and past participle condensed
1. (transitive) To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.
  Quotations
  In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure.
  1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  The secret course pursued both at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
  1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […]
2. (transitive, chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
3. (intransitive, chemistry) To be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state.
adjective
comparative more condense, superlative most condense
1. (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
  Quotations
  The huge condense bodies of planets.
  1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693