thickening
Noun
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Noun
thickening
- The process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous.
- A substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce.
- A thickened part of a structure.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 6:
- {...}} the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts {{...}
- French: épaississement
- German: Dickwerden
- Italian: ispessimento
- Russian: сгуще́ние
- Spanish: espesamiento
- French: épaississant
- German: Verdickungsmittel
- Italian: addensante
- Spanish: espesante
- present participle of thicken#English|thicken
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