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What does calescent mean?

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Adjective
  1. Growing warm.
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Chokedamp inch by inch from the frames of panes, the isolated oil-lamp in the horseshoe arch deadens, calescent fug.
This calescent mode of proceeding was adopted with the idea of exciting a counter-irritation in the diseased part.
He stood bare-bodied, his arms raised straight above his head, his face lifted to the calescent star.
Like hypnosis before it, calescent behaviourism is initially hard to credit, yet, in fifty years' time, we shall probably accept it as a commonplace that man powers his own vehicles by.
In the case of high-carbon or alloy steels, there is a very definite retrograde movement of the pointer when the calescent states of the material are reached.
During the cooling of steel on reaching the calescent point, there is generally a few seconds, a rise in the temperature, which is no doubt due to the oxygen attacking the carbon, and burning it.

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