Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An agent that causes a liquid or sol to coagulate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A substance that produces coagulation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That which produces coagulation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A substance that causes coagulation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an agent that produces coagulation

Etymologies

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Latin coagulans, present participle

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Examples

  • But Schulz warns our fear of being wrong is so strong it "acts as a kind of omnipurpose coagulant ... cooling our curiosity about the world."

    Elory Rozner: Teaching Being Wrong Elory Rozner 2011

  • He stood there for hours that night and stared into something he knew would make him a meaningless cipher in its light, make him ambiguous, coagulant dust in relationship to the size of a thing he could never comprehend, only quiver to imagine.

    Southern Cross James Lloyd Davis 2011

  • Because they want to cannibalize the unknown; to leave the chemicals, the furniture and, yes, the shrew behind; to make their way hi ho into the brush, whose weeds and lianas remain empty of the exhortations of Jesus Christ, whose roots and trunks have never felt the sappy coagulant candle-wax, whose steam rises solely from the exhalation of leaf and beast and man, and never from the bang of the Stanley engine.

    Ambitious Cooper Renner 2011

  • But Schulz warns our fear of being wrong is so strong it "acts as a kind of omnipurpose coagulant ... cooling our curiosity about the world."

    Elory Rozner: Teaching Being Wrong Elory Rozner 2011

  • He stood there for hours that night and stared into something he knew would make him a meaningless cipher in its light, make him ambiguous, coagulant dust in relationship to the size of a thing he could never comprehend, only quiver to imagine.

    Southern Cross James Lloyd Davis 2011

  • An anti coagulant will promote bleeding, not stop it.

    Use Your Old Coffee Grounds To Clean Dishes, Kill Fleas And Much More | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Ice, when ingested, becomes a coagulant and constricts our blood vessels and internal organs.

    Sat Hon: The Tao of Food: What Not to Eat Sat Hon 2010

  • Prof. POTTER: Yeah, when a bedbug bites a person, they inject both an anti-coagulant, which allows the bug to extract blood from the human, and also sort of anesthetizing agent, which causes the bite to be painless, unlike say a flea bite, for example.

    Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let The Bedbugs ... 2010

  • Prof. POTTER: Yeah, when a bedbug bites a person, they inject both an anti-coagulant, which allows the bug to extract blood from the human, and also sort of anesthetizing agent, which causes the bite to be painless, unlike say a flea bite, for example.

    Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let The Bedbugs ... 2010

  • Ice, when ingested, becomes a coagulant and constricts our blood vessels and internal organs.

    Sat Hon: The Tao of Food: What Not to Eat 2010

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