coolant

English

Etymology

cool +‎ -ant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːlənt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

coolant (plural coolants)

1. A medium, usually fluid, used to draw heat from an object.

   Coolant is used in car engines and industrial processes, where excess heat could cause machine damage.

   • 1962 October, M. J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, page 264:

     Anti-freeze has not been found necessary, even in the most severe conditions, since the water is drained out if a locomotive spends any appreciable time out of service and in normal working conditions the coolant is always warm.

Translations

a fluid

• Bulgarian: охлажда́щ аге́нт m (ohlaždášt agént)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷卻劑／冷却剂 (zh) (lěngquèjì)

• Czech: chladicí kapalina f
• Dutch: koelmiddel (nl) n, koelvloeistof (nl) m or f
• Finnish: jäähdytysaine, jäähdytysneste (fi), jäähdyte, jäähdytys- (in compounds, e.g. jäähdytysvesi (“coolant water”))
• French: fluide caloporteur (fr) m, réfrigérant (fr) m
• Galician: refrixerante m
• German: Kühlmittel (de) n, Kühlflüssigkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: hűtőfolyadék (hu)
• Icelandic: kælivökvi m, kæliefni n
• Italian: refrigerante (it) m, antigelo (it) m
• Japanese: 冷却剤 (れいきゃくざい, reikyakuzai)
• Korean: 냉각제(冷却劑) (naenggakje), 랭각제(冷却劑) (raenggakje) (North Korea)
• Lithuanian: šilumnešis (lt) m, aušinimo skystis m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjølevæske m or f, kjølevann n

  Nynorsk: kjølevæske f

• Polish: chłodziwo n
• Portuguese: refrigerante (pt)
• Russian: охлажда́ющая жи́дкость (ru) f (oxlaždájuščaja žídkostʹ), теплоноси́тель (ru) m (teplonosítelʹ)
• Slovak: chladiaca kvapalina f
• Spanish: refrigerante m
• Ukrainian: теплоносі́й m (teplonosíj)

Anagrams

• octanol, octonal