Capillarity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The interaction between contacting surfaces of a liquid and a solid that distorts the liquid surface from a planar shape. Also called capillary action.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The interaction between the surfaces of a solid and liquid in contact that distorts the normal geometry of the liquid surface; especially the rise or fall of a liquid in a fine tube.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or condition of being capillary.
  • n. The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or condition of being capillary; capillary attraction.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    surface tension   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    capillary action   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chemism    repulsions    hybridity    galvanism    disaggregation   
     
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