Freezing
Freez·ing
Freezing
a.
- Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
Phrases & Compounds
- Freezing machine
- See Ice machine, under Ice.
- Freezing mixture
- a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold.
- Freezing point
- that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32° Fahr., and at 0° Centigrade.