what is the meaning of retort?

Answer 1

Retort mean to reply quickly, in an angry or humorous way.

Answer 2

Retorted Meaning

Answer 3

In a chemistry laboratory, a retort is a glassware device used for distillation or dry distillation of substances. It consists of a spherical vessel with a long downward-pointing neck. The liquid to be distilled is placed in the vessel and heated. The neck acts as a condenser, allowing the evaporated vapors to condense and flow along the neck to a collection vessel placed underneath.

In industrial applications, a retort is an airtight vessel in which substances are heated for a chemical reaction producing gaseous products to be collected in a collection vessel or for further processing.

The chamber where a body is placed when being cremated is refered to as a retort.

It also means to REPLY quickly/with wit or humour or sarcasm.

Answer 4

It means: Reply quickly.
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and it used in chemistry, In a chemistry laboratory, a retort is a glassware device used for distillation or dry distillation of substances. It consists of a spherical vessel with a long downward-pointing neck. The liquid to be distilled is placed in the vessel and heated. The neck acts as a condenser, allowing the evaporated vapors to condense and flow along the neck to a collection vessel placed underneath.

In industrial applications, a retort is an airtight vessel in which substances are heated for a chemical reaction producing gaseous products to be collected in a collection vessel or for further processing.

The chamber where a body is placed when being cremated is refered to as a retort.

Answer 5

Here are many meanings of "retort."
In a chemistry language, a "retort" is a glassware device used for distillation or dry distillation.
It also means to reply, especially to answer in a quick, caustic, or witty manner and to return in kind; pay back also.

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Answer 6

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what is the meaning of retort?

Answer 7

1. Chemistry. a. a vessel, commonly a glass bulb with a long neck bent downward, used for distilling or decomposing substances by heat.
b. a refractory chamber, generally cylindrically shaped, within which some substance, as ore or coal, is heated as part of a smelting or manufacturing process.
c. an airtight, usually cylindrical vessel of fire clay or iron, used in the destructive distillation chiefly of coal and wood in the manufacture of illuminating gas.

2. a sterilizer for food cans.

Answer 8

Yes it can be a quick answer or a glass vessel used for distillation.

Answer 9

generally it means to give a counterargument - like in a debate