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Definition of Rarefied
1. Adjective. Having low density. "Lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
2. Adjective. Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style. "A grand purpose"
Similar to: Noble
Derivative terms: Grandness, High-mindedness, Idealism, Noble-mindedness
Definition of Rarefied
1. Adjective. Esoteric. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a gas etc.) Less dense than usual. ¹
3. Verb. (past of rarefy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rarefied
1. rarefy [v] - See also: rarefy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rarefied
Literary usage of Rarefied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a by Joseph John Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell (1893)
"A rarefied gas is usually regarded as an exceedingly bad conductor, and the
experiments of many observers, such as those of Hittorf, De la Rue and Hugo ..."
2. Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a by Joseph John Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell (1893)
"A rarefied gas is usually regarded as an exceedingly bad conductor, and tlie
experiments of many observers, such as those of Hittorf, De la Rue and Hugo ..."
3. The Kinetic Theory of Gases: Elementary Treatise with Mathematical Appendices by Oskar Emil Meyer (1899)
"Phenomena in very rarefied Gases The molecular free path increases with increase
of rarefaction in the ratio of the increase of the volume ; so too, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"On the Production, in rarefied Gases, of Luminous Rings in rotation about Lines
of Magnetic Force. By CES PHILLIPS. A low pressure having been produced in ..."
5. Electricity and Magnetism by Fleeming Jenkin (1887)
"rarefied gases are found to be tolerably good conductors. ... According to recent
experiments by Mr. Varley, conduction in rarefied gases does follow Ohm's ..."
6. Aeroplanes by James Slough Zerbe (1915)
"Now, another factor must be considered, namely, the effect produced on the upper
side of the plane, over which a rarefied area is formed at certain points, ..."
7. Textbook of Aerial Laws and Regulations for Aerial Navigation, International by Henry Woodhouse (1920)
"This could not be done with the aeroplanes equipped with the motors alone, because
the motors were affected by the rarefied air to be met at altitudes of ..."
8. The Kinetic Theory of Gases: Elementary Treatise with Mathematical Appendices by Oskar Emil Meyer (1899)
"But we cannot, therefore, believe that the molecular paths in excessively rarefied
gases, as in the vacuum of a mercury air-pump, attain a considerable ..."
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