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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor

Meaning of "air conditioning" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AIR CONDITIONING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AIR CONDITIONING

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Air conditioning is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AIR CONDITIONING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Air conditioning

Air conditioning is the process of altering the properties of air to more favourable conditions, typically with the aim of distributing the conditioned air to an occupied space to improve comfort. In the most general sense, air conditioning can refer to any form of technology, heating, cooling, de-humidification, humidification, cleaning, ventilation, or air movement, that modifies the condition of air. In common use, an air conditioner is a device that lowers the air temperature. The cooling is typically done using a simple refrigeration cycle, but sometimes evaporation is used, commonly for comfort cooling in buildings and motor vehicles. In construction, a complete system of heating, ventilation and air conditioning is referred to as "HVAC". Air conditioning can also be provided by a simple process called free cooling which uses pumps to circulate a coolant from a cold source, which in turn acts as a heat sink for the energy that is removed from the cooled space. Free cooling systems can have very high efficiencies, and are sometimes combined with seasonal thermal energy storage so the cold of winter can be used for summer air conditioning.

Definition of air conditioning in the English dictionary

The definition of air conditioning in the dictionary is a system or process for controlling the temperature and sometimes the humidity and purity of the air in a house, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AIR CONDITIONING

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air bridge
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air cargo
air cavity
air chamber
air chief marshal
air cleaner
Air Command
air commodore
air consignment note
air corridor
air cover
air crash
air current
air curtain
air cushion
air cylinder
air dam
air disaster

WORDS THAT END LIKE AIR CONDITIONING

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ballooning
beginning
burgeoning
canyoning
cloning
conditioning
couponing
cushioning
food poisoning
ironing
Liaoning
poisoning
positioning
questioning
rationing
reasoning
reckoning
seasoning
unquestioning
zoning

Synonyms and antonyms of air conditioning in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «air conditioning» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AIR CONDITIONING

Find out the translation of air conditioning to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of air conditioning from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «air conditioning» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

空调
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aire acondicionado
570 millions of speakers

English

air conditioning
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एयर कंडीशनिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تكييف الهواء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кондиционер
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ar condicionado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

এয়ার কন্ডিশনার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

climatisation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pendingin hawa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Klimaanlage
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

空調
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

에어컨
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Air conditioning
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

điều hòa không khí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காற்றுச்சீரமைத்தல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वातानुकुलीत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

klima
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

aria condizionata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

klimatyzacja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кондиціонер
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

aer condiționat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κλιματισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lugversorging
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

luftkonditionering
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

klimaanlegg
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of air conditioning

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AIR CONDITIONING»

The term «air conditioning» is very widely used and occupies the 8.582 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AIR CONDITIONING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about air conditioning

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10 QUOTES WITH «AIR CONDITIONING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word air conditioning.
1
Amiri Baraka
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
2
Katherine Dunham
We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.
3
Nancy Grace
I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.
4
David Harsanyi
A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.
5
Garrison Keillor
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
6
Rem Koolhaas
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.
7
David Mixner
My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.
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Ray Nagin
I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air conditioning nor shower facilities. I made decisions based upon facts and not what I thought was going to happen. So history will judge me based upon those actions.
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Becki Newton
My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
10
Summer Sanders
I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AIR CONDITIONING»

Discover the use of air conditioning in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to air conditioning and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Air Conditioning Engineering
Designed for students and professional engineers, the fifth edition of this classic text deals with fundamental science and design principles of air conditioning engineering systems.
W.P. Jones, 2007
2
Fundamentals of Air Conditioning Systems
Here is your complete guide to the specification and application of all types of commercial and residential air conditioning equipment.
Billy C. Langley, 2000
3
Electricity for Refrigeration, Heating, and Air Conditioning
The practical approach taken in this book will allow your students to focus exclusively on the electronics information they will use in the field, without bogging them down in unnecessary theory.
Russell Smith, 2010
4
Air-conditioning System Design Manual
This second edition represents an update and revision of the manual.
Walter T. Grondzik, 2007
5
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Repair
Discusses preventive maintenance, and troubleshooting
Roger A. Fischer, Ken Chernoff, 1988
6
Air Conditioning: A practical introduction
This expanded edition of David Chadderton's Air Conditioning is a textbook for undergraduate courses in building services and environmental engineering, and for BTEC continuing education diploma, higher national diploma and certificate ...
David V. Chadderton, 2012
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Commercial Refrigeration: For Air Conditioning Technicians
This book provides a solid foundation in comfort cooling that can be readily transferred to a broad understanding of medium and low temperature refrigeration equipment such as walk-ins, reach-ins, refrigerated cases, and ice machines.
Dick Wirz, 2009
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Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
The book supplies the basics of design, from selecting the optimum system and equipment to preparing the drawings and specifications.
Frank Kreith, Shan K. Wang, Paul Norton, 1999
9
Air-Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled ...
Cooper demonstrates how the lure of the open air, from rooftop schoolrooms to open-air theaters to the front porch, challenged air conditioning.
Gail Cooper, 2002
10
Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning
He is past - President of the Institute of Refrigeration. * Covers principles, methods and application of refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps in a concise volume, without the encumbrance of handbook information found in other ...
G H Hundy, A. R. Trott, T C Welch, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AIR CONDITIONING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term air conditioning is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Pope's Perceptive Paragraph About Air Conditioning
It was perhaps no coincidence that Pope Francis singled out air conditioning as an example of “harmful” consumption in his June 18 ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
2
How to make your own air conditioning
You may have also noticed that your electricity bill is higher during the summer, too. Air conditioning units use a lot of power, and the cooler you ... «gulfnews.com, Jul 15»
3
Chevy gives smartphones their own air conditioning vent
Hot cars and smartphones don't mix. It's not uncommon for our phones to be warm to the touch during summer months, especially when ... «Gizmag, Jul 15»
4
Missoula animal shelter soon will have air-conditioning, thanks to …
Thanks to the generosity of Missoula donors, Missoula Animal Control will soon have air conditioning in all of the dog and cat spaces at the ... «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
5
Cambridge Home Cooling Experts Outline Ductless Air Conditioning
Winters Home Services, an award-winning service company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, outlines the benefits of Ductless Air ... «Newswire, Jul 15»
6
Firefighters help woman with no air conditioning
Firefighter Jim Polkey aided a woman in need when her house became too hot for her to breathe. (Source: WLTV via NBC) ... «KPLC-TV, Jul 15»
7
Just chilling! Watch dog's ice cool reaction to experiencing air con …
... see today, shows the moment a pet pooch decides to chill out in sweltering temperatures by enjoying a blast from a car's air conditioning unit. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
8
New joint venture intents to conquer the solar air conditioning
“With China's vast amounts of buildings in need of indoor comfort, Solar Air Conditioning is a transformational market opportunity. We are ... «solarserver.com, Jul 15»
9
​Lack of air conditioning on respiratory ward at Northampton …
NGH brought in portable units when the air conditioning broke down on Allebone Ward but Beckett Ward, which hosts respiratory and high ... «Northampton Herald and Post, Jul 15»
10
As Seattle sweats, few air conditioners cool us down
Seattleites may be used to life without air conditioning, but the droves of people moving here from other parts of the country must wonder about ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»

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