liquid oxygen

1. 1.

   a bluish translucent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point; used as an oxidizer in rocket propellants

   SynonymsLOX

   Broaderoxygen

Questions about liquid oxygen

What does liquid oxygen mean?

liquid oxygen means "a bluish translucent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point; used as an oxidizer in rocket propellants".

What is another word for liquid oxygen?

Close synonyms include LOX. 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 liquid oxygen a common word?

liquid oxygen 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.