Liquefaction

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The state of being liquid.

II. Liquefaction ·noun The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.

III. Liquefaction ·noun The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.