frigorific

See also: frigorífic

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Latin frigorificus; frigus, frigoris (“cold”) + facere (“to make”): compare French frigorifique.

Adjective

frigorific (comparative more frigorific, superlative most frigorific)

  1. causing to cool or chill
    • 1801, Richard Walker, "On the Production of artificial Cold by Means of Muriate of Lime," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, page 124:
      "Pr. LOWITZ has discovered a single frigorific mixture, by which quicksilver may be frozen..."
    • 2007, C.A. Hidalgo et al., "The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations," Science 317(5837):
      "They would certainly have the soil, climate, packing technologies, and frigorific trucks."
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