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As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
Simon Schama

Meaning of "rarefied" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RAREFIED

rarefied  [ˈrɛərɪˌfaɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RAREFIED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rarefied is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES RAREFIED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rarefaction

Rarefaction is the reduction of an item's density, the opposite of compression. Like compression, which can travel in waves, rarefaction waves also exist in nature. A common rarefaction wave is the area of low relative pressure following a shock wave. Rarefaction waves expand with time; in most gases rarefaction waves keep the same overall profile at all times throughout the wave's movement: it is a self-similar expansion. Each part of the wave travels at the local speed of sound, in the local medium. This expansion behaviour is in contrast to the behaviour of pressure increases, which get narrower with time, until they steepen into shock waves.

Definition of rarefied in the English dictionary

The first definition of rarefied in the dictionary is exalted in nature or character; lofty. Other definition of rarefied is current within only a small group; esoteric or exclusive. Rarefied is also having a low density; thin.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RAREFIED


certified
ˈsɜːtɪˌfaɪd
chondrified
ˈkɒndrɪˌfaɪd
classified
ˈklæsɪˌfaɪd
countrified
ˈkʌntrɪˌfaɪd
countryfied
ˈkʌntrɪˌfaɪd
etherified
ˈi:θərɪˌfaɪd
gentrified
ˌdʒɛntrɪˌfaɪd
horrified
ˈhɒrɪˌfaɪd
identified
aɪˈdentɪˌfaɪd
nonesterified
ˌnɒnɛˈstɛrɪˌfaɪd
qualified
ˈkwɒlɪˌfaɪd
saccharified
sæˈkærɪˌfaɪd
ultrararefied
ˌʌltrəˈrɛərɪˌfaɪd
unclarified
ʌnˈklærɪˌfaɪd
ungentrified
ʌnˈˌdʒentrɪˌfaɪd
unified
ˈjuːnɪˌfaɪd
unpurified
ʌnˈpjʊərɪˌfaɪd
unterrified
ʌnˈtɛrɪˌfaɪd
unverified
ʌnˈvɛrɪˌfaɪd
unvitrified
ʌnˈvɪtrɪˌfaɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RAREFIED

rare
rare bird
rare earth
rare gas
rare-earth element
rarebit
raree show
rarefaction
rarefactional
rarefactive
rarefiable
rarefication
rareficational
rarefier
rarefies
rarefy
rarely
rareness
rareripe
raring

WORDS THAT END LIKE RAREFIED

amplified
defied
diversified
justified
liquefied
modified
notified
purified
putrefied
rubefied
satisfied
simplified
specified
stupefied
tepefied
torrefied
tumefied
undefied
unliquefied
verified

Synonyms and antonyms of rarefied in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RAREFIED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rarefied» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of rarefied

Translation of «rarefied» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RAREFIED

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

Translator English - Chinese

稀薄
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enrarecida
570 millions of speakers

English

rarefied
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

rarefied
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مخلخل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

разреженный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rarefeito
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তনু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

raréfié
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rarefied
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

rarefied
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

希薄な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

희박
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rarefied
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

loãng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரிதானதாகவே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुर्मिळित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

seyreltilmiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rarefatto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozrzedzone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розріджене
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rarefiat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αραιά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ijl
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förfinade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rarefied
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rarefied

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RAREFIED»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RAREFIED» OVER TIME

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

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8 QUOTES WITH «RAREFIED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rarefied.
1
Joan Van Ark
When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.
2
Charles Hazlewood
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
3
Dan Hill
To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
4
Florence King
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
5
Harmony Korine
I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
6
Mark Morris
'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
7
Gus Van Sant
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
8
Simon Schama
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAREFIED»

Discover the use of rarefied in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rarefied and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rarefied Gas Dynamics: Fundamentals, Simulations and Micro Flows
This book elucidates the methods of molecular gas dynamics or rarefied gas dynamics which treat the problems of gas flows when the discrete molecular effects of the gas prevail under the circumstances of low density, the emphasis being on ...
Ching Shen, 2006
2
Macroscopic Transport Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows: ...
This book discusses classical and modern methods to derive macroscopic transport equations for rarefied gases from the Boltzmann equation, for small and moderate Knudsen numbers, i.e. at and above the Navier-Stokes-Fourier level.
Henning Struchtrup, 2006
3
Rarefied Gas Dynamics: From Basic Concepts to Actual ...
The aim of this book is to present the concepts, methods and applications of kinetic theory to rarefied gas dynamics.
Carlo Cercignani, 2000
4
Slow Rarefied Flows: Theory and Application to ...
The book presents the mathematical tools used to deal with problems related to slow rarefied flows, with particular attention to basic concepts and problems which arise in the study of micro- and nanomachines.
Carlo Cercignani, 2006
5
Assessment of Gas-surface Interaction Models for Computation ...
CHAPTER VI GENERAL SUMMARY AND FUTURE WORK 6.1 Overview Motivated by escalating efforts to advance space transportation, computational simulation capabilities for rarefied and hypersonic flight conditions are becoming  ...
Jose Fernando Padilla, 2008
6
Icy Bodies of the Solar System (IAU S263)
The results of these studies were used to develop models of the formation of binaries at the stage of rarefied preplanetesimals. The models can explain a greater fraction of binaries formed at greater distances from the Sun. Sometimes there ...
International Astronomical Union. Symposium, Julio A. Fernandez, Daniela Lazzaro, 2010
7
Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2000: Trends and ...
Rarefied. Gas. Flows. Yoichiro MATSUMOTOa , Hiroki YAMAGUCHIa and Nobuyuki TSUBOIb aDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan bResea.rch Division for  ...
C.B. Jenssen, T. Kvamdal, H.I. Andersson, 2001
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IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Micro- and Nanofluidics: ...
Valougeorgis D (2007) A study on the friction factor of a rarefied gas flow in a circular tube. Phys Fluids 19(9):091701.1–091701.4 2. Ferziger JH, Kaper HG ( 1972) Mathematical theory of transport processes in gases. North-Holland ...
Marco Ellero, 2009
9
The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
From the lungs and the liver, the rarefied and coarse particles sought each other out and, having met, formed the heart. And as the rarefied particles were animated by a livelier and more rapid movement, they proceeded further, and that was ...
Jacques Roger Edited by Keith R. Benson Translated by Robert Ellrich, 1997
10
Methods of Direct Solving the Boltzmann Equation and Study ...
Aristov V.V. (1995) Numerical analysis of freejets at small Knudsen numbers, Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Oxford University Press Vol. no. 2. pp. 1293-1299. 4. Aristov V.V. (1997) Instabilities in jets at small Knudsen numbers, Rarefied Gas ...
V.V. Aristov, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAREFIED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rarefied is used in the context of the following news items.
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Inside the rarefied world of Chicago's wine clubs
Inside the rarefied world of Chicago's wine clubs. Comments Email Print. By Lynne Marek. SHARE ×. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google +0. Hart Davis Hart ... «Crain's Chicago Business, Jul 15»
2
Gallagher: B.C.'s Vasek Pospisil climbs to rarefied heights at …
Vasek Pospisil became only the fourth Canadian to make the round of 16 at Wimbledon Saturday in the London suburb, and in his typical style, he didn't make it ... «The Province, Jul 15»
3
Natasha Spendlove belongs to a rarefied part of the demographic …
In her late twenties now, blonde, well-dressed and not obviously deriving from any particular social class – in fact, her father is an estate agent – Natasha ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
4
African-American Misty Copeland promoted to top role in rarefied
A ballerina who did not take her first class until she was 13 and spent much of her childhood living with her single mother in a motel room has become the first ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
For Black Principal Dancers, Rarefied Air
With her promotion at American Ballet Theater, Misty Copeland joins only a handful of African-Americans at major companies who have become principals. «New York Times, Jun 15»
6
'Rarefied Light' juror to present workshops in Anchorage
Susan Burnstine, the juror for the 2015 "Rarefied Light" photo show, will be in Anchorage next month to present her juror's lecture and conduct a workshop. «Alaska Dispatch News, Jun 15»
7
Baseball by the numbers: Nationals' Bryce Harper in rarefied air
With 19 homers, a .326 batting average and a major-league-leading 1.170 OPS, Harper's rWAR — the Baseball-Reference.com version of wins above ... «Chicago Sun-Times, Jun 15»
8
Fox Chapel volleyball team nears rarefied air
Fox Chapel's Jerett Zaleski (3), Jack Reese (11) and Jaysen Zaleski (5) celebrate a point during the PIAA semifinal game against Seneca Valley on Tuesday, ... «Tribune-Review, Jun 15»
9
Jimmie Johnson approaching rarefied air at Dover
DOVER, Del. — Jimmie Johnson , who has made more than a few dents in motorsports history in his career, can join another rather exclusive club with a win in ... «USA TODAY, May 15»
10
The rarefied air of Forbes
With the exception of Governor Forbes street in proletarian Sampaloc district of Manila, Forbes is associated in this country with wealth… lots of it. There is of ... «Philippine Star, May 15»

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