Definition of Intumescence

In`tu`mes´cence
n.1.
1.The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
The intumescence of nations.
- Johnson.
2.Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.


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