Quenching (disambiguation)

Quenching may mean:

* to quench, which is the rapid cooling of a solid to lock it into a metastable crystal structure
* Quenching (fluorescence), any process which decreases the fluorescence intensity of a given substance
* a loss of superconductivity resulting in a rapid rise of resistance and temperature, e.g. in a superconducting magnet
* the means by which a Geiger-Müller tube is able to distinguish individual particles
* in a super-regenerative receiver, the process of interrupting the main RF oscillation with a lower frequency oscillation
* the process of stopping an electrical arc, for example in a fuse or Spark-gap transmitter
* in an internal combustion engine, the rapid cooling of fuel inside the combustion chamber that prevents it from burning
* rapid evaporative cooling of a gas by injection of a liquid

Quench may also refer to:
* Quench (album), an album by The Beautiful South
* Quench (band), a British rock band
* ICMP Source Quench, a message that is part of the internet core protocol
* Lily Quench, a series of children's books
* a dark quencher, a dye that absorbs light, but does not emit it - used in molecular biology
* a magazine published by gair rhydd, a student newspaper of Cardiff University
* a secondary gas in a neon tube filled with a Penning mixture
* a character in the sketch comedy show "All That"