infrigidation

1. 1.

   the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes

   Synonymsrefrigeration

   Broadercoolingpreservation

Other forms of infrigidation

plural

infrigidations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about infrigidation

What does infrigidation mean?

infrigidation means "the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes".

How many syllables are in infrigidation?

infrigidation has 6 syllables: in-fri-gi-da-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for infrigidation?

Close synonyms include refrigeration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is infrigidation a common word?

infrigidation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.