Look up: Capillarity

1. capillarity
   Type: Term Pronunciation: kap′i-lar′i-tē Definitions: 1. The rise of liquids in narrow tubes or through the pores of a loose material, as a result of capillary action.
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2. capillarity
   (Green plants as organisms) the tendency of water to move up a narrow tube - the effect of water molecules clinging to each other and clinging to the sides of the tube
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3. capillarity
   [n] - a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries
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4. capillarity
   the phenomenon by which water or other liquids are carried by minute pores throughout the soil or upwards Category: The cosmos
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5. Capillarity
   Cap`il·lar'i·ty noun [ Confer French capillarité .] 1. The quality or condition of being capillary. 2. (Physics) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary...
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6. capillarity
   The action by which the surface of a liquid where it contacts a solid is elevated or depressed, because of the relative attraction of the molecules of the liquid for each other and for those of the solid. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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7. capillarity
   capillary action noun a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries
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8. capillarity
   (kap″ĭ-lar´ĭ-te) the 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.
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9. Capillarity
   • (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.
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10. capillarity
    rise or depression of a liquid in a small passage such as a tube of small cross-sectional area, like the spaces between the fibres of a towel or the ... [2 related articles]
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11. capillarity
    capillary, capillarity 1. An extremely narrow thin-walled blood vessel that connects small arteries (arterioles) with small veins (venules) to form a network throughout the body. 2. Involving or relating to capillary action. 3. Resembling hair; as fine and slender as a hair.
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12. Capillarity
    A wick-like action whereby a liquid will migrate vertically through material, in a upward direction; as oil in a lamp travels upward through the wick,
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13. Capillarity
    (F capillarity, R capilaritate) Absorbtion of a liquid due to surface tension _ 'rising damp' (R Igrasie) in walls is caused by capillary rise of the water in small pores of the walling materials
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14. Capillarity
    a property of a solid-liquid system manifested by the tendency of the liquid in contact with the solid to rise above or fall below the level of the surrounding liquid; this phenomenon is seen in a smallbore (capillary) tube.
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15. capillarity
    capillarity or capillary action,phenomenon in which the surface of a liquid is observed to be elevated or depressed where it comes into contact with a solid. For example, the surface of water in a clean drinking glass is seen to be slightly higher at the edges, where it contacts the glass, than in t...
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16. Capillarity
    Capillarity is the general name for certain phenomena exhibited by fluid surfaces when the vessels containing the liquid are very narrow, and also exhibited by that portion of the fluid surface which is in close proximity to the sides of a larger vessel, or to any inserted object.
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17. capillarity
    Spontaneous movement of liquids up or down narrow tubes, or capillaries. The movement is due to unbalanced molecular attraction at the boundary between the liquid and the tube. If liquid molecules near the boundary are more strongly attracted to molecules in the material of the tube than to other ne...
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