syneresis

[si-ner-uh-sis]

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noun

synaeresis.
Physical Chemistry.��the contraction of a gel accompanied by the exudation of liquid.

syneresis

/ ��ɪˈ��ɪə��ɪ��ɪ�� /

chem the process in which a gel contracts on standing and exudes liquid, as in the separation of whey in cheese-making
the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong
another word for synizesis

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First recorded in 1570–80; variant of synaeresis

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C16: via Late Latin from Greek sunairesis a shortening, from sunairein to draw together, from _syn- + hairein to take

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And all the time he had waited, he could feel himself growing older, could sense the syneresis, the slow solidifying of the life elements within him.

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