antifreeze

English

Alternative forms

• anti-freeze

Etymology

From anti- +‎ freeze.

Pronunciation

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Noun

antifreeze (countable and uncountable, plural antifreezes)

1. A substance, such as glycol, used to lower the freezing point of water;
2. (automobiles) Automotive antifreeze, a solution of ethylene glycol, used as an additive to water or replacement for water, in the radiators of motorcars.
3. (aviation) Deicer, a heated glycol solution used to remove ice from the aerodynamic surfaces of airplanes, and prevent icing while on the tarmac.

Related terms

• antifreezing

Translations

a substance used to lower the freezing point of water

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: антифри́з m (antifríz)
• Catalan: anticongelant m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防凍液／防冻液 (zh) (fángdòngyè)

• Czech: nemrznoucí kapalina f, chladicí kapalina f
• Danish: frostvæske c
• Dutch: antivries (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: antifriis
• Finnish: pakkasneste
• French: antigel (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Frostschutzmittel (de) n
• Greek: αντιψυκτικό n (antipsyktikó)
• Irish: frithreo m
• Japanese: 不凍液 (ふとうえき, futōeki)
• Korean: 부동액(不凍液) (ko) (budong'aek)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: antifrizas m
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frostvæske m or f

  Nynorsk: frostvæske f

• Plautdietsch: Antiefries n
• Polish: płyn przeciw zamarzaniu m, odmrażacz m, płyn chłodniczy m
• Portuguese: anticongelante (pt) m
• Russian: антифри́з (ru) m (antifríz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̏нтифрӣз m

  Roman: ȁntifrīz (sh) m

• Spanish: anticongelante (es) m
• Swedish: frostskydd n, glykol (sv) c
• Turkish: antifriz (tr), dondurmaz (rare)
• Welsh: gwrthrewydd m

Further reading

• antifreeze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia