Definition of Overcool

1. to make too cool [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcool

overcontribute
overcontributed
overcontributes
overcontributing
overcontribution
overcontributions
overcontrol
overcontrolled
overcontrolling
overcontrols
overconvergent
overcook
overcooked
overcooking
overcooks
overcool (current term)
overcooled
overcooling
overcools
overcorrect
overcorrected
overcorrecting
overcorrection
overcorrections
overcorrects
overcostly
overcount
overcounted
overcounting
overcounts

Literary usage of Overcool

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"Muller-Thurgau l found these temperatures for various sorts of wood as follows:— overcool. pt. freez. pt. Stem of small apple tree -7.2° C One year shoot of ..."

2. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1870)
"There's never any of these demure boys come to any proof; for thin drink doth so overcool their blood, and making many fish-meals, that they fall into a ..."

3. The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the by Inchbald, Elizabeth Inchbald (1808)
"There's never any of these demure boys come to any proof: for thin drink doth so overcool their blood, and making many fish meals, that they fall into a ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"If abscissae represent the amount of overcool- ing below the melting-point, and ordinates, the velocities of reaction, or the time required for the passage ..."

5. The Theory of Heat by Thomas Preston (1894)
"For this reason it would be expected that very mobile liquids would be more difficult to superheat or overcool than those which are viscous. ..."

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