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capillarities

capillarities is the plural of capillarity.

Meaning of capillarity

Noun

capillarity (countable and uncountable, plural capillarities)

  1. 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.
    • Hence the allowance to be made for diminution of the height of a mercurial column, owing to capillarity, is determined by two considerations — the diameter of the tube and versed sine of the corresponding meniscus.1856, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences

Questions about capillarities

What is capillarities the plural of?
Capillarities is the plural of capillarity.

Words near capillarities in the dictionary

  1. capillariness
  2. capillariosis
  3. capillarisation
  4. capillarisations
  5. capillarisin
  6. capillarities
  7. capillaritis
  8. capillaritron
  9. capillarity
  10. capillarization
  11. capillarizations

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