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Condense vs Consense - What's the difference?

condense | consense |

As verbs the difference between condense and consense

is that condense is to decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence while consense is to agree; to form by consensus.

As an adjective condense

is condensed; compact; dense.

As a noun consense is

agreement.

condense

English

Alternative forms

* condence

Verb

  • To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.
    • An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
    Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
  • To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.
  • * Milton
    • In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.
  • * Motley
    • The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
  • (chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.

    • Synonyms

    * (to decrease size or volume) minify

    Antonyms

    * extend * magnify

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
    • The huge condense bodies of planets. — Bentley.
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    consense

    English

    Verb

    (consens)
  • To agree; to form by consensus.
  • * 1970 , Harry Hay, “Western Homophile Conference Keynote Address,” in Speaking for Our Lives, Robert B Ridinger ed. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=PatzOnRJCf4C&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&sig=CFk9r9_qCI7TL5Gysdtc6bDw1SE], 2003
    • We consense , we affirm and re-affirm the Free Community of Spirit, we acknowledge a spokesman to voice our thinking when such voicings seem called for.
  • * 1999, Mary Walton, Car [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=3xmDzzNiwiUC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&sig=hxc7iKJixjH3VehPwG1jsRB3JL8]
    • It’s overblown, it isn’t quite as consensus-oriented management as you might think—but did they consense on this over twenty years?
  • * 2003, Milan Daniel, “Algebraic Structures Related to the Consensus Operator for Combining of Beliefs,” in Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning With Uncertainty, Thomas D. Nielsen and Nevin L Zhang edd. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=lOfqrvKD42oC&pg=PA339&lpg=PA339&sig=KXvU9mUgD13v7aZSyIUhEB17N4A]
    • Consensus of two opinions is Bayesian iff at least one of the opinions consensed (i.e. combined by the consensus operator) is Bayesian.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • agreement
  • * 1995, Max Pensky, “Universalism and the situated critic,” in The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, Stephen K White ed. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=EfP7-iYd120C&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&sig=Qiq-5jwSChtKCR2Qz46lReOjk9g]
    • In this way the rational constitution of a democratic state is the embodiment of a preestablished, decontextualized social contract, an expectation on which all particular consenses and compromises must be based: [...]
  • * 1999, M. Banzi et al., “An Experience in Configuration Management in SODALIA,” in System Configuration Management, Jacky Estublier ed. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=9N4t8Tq6jzQC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&sig=jY0OLldJtQl3G_R6hJisDOfAjWE]
    • Special thanks to Michele Marini for his revision and his consense to the effort necessary in the writing of the paper.
  • * 2001, Azizah Y al-Hibri, “Standing at the Precipice,” in Religion in American Public Life, Azizah Y al-Hibri et al. edd. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=ZBgr7CSZD1wC&sig=vAchrx2BflWr03qE8wt0lphAlcI]
    • If one raises the bar too high—seeking, say, civil harmony and unity rather than the possibility of working and shifting consenses and a comingling of pluralities and commonalities—religious differences are always going to be problematic at best.

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