To make something more compact or concentrated; to change from gas to liquid state; to express something in fewer words while retaining meaning. Implies compression without loss of essential content.
From Latin 'condensare' meaning 'to make thick or dense' (con- 'together' + densus 'thick, dense'). The physical science meaning developed in the 17th century with advances in understanding of matter states, while the literary meaning of summarization emerged later.
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