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shear-thickening

shear-thickening adjective: whose viscosity increases with increasing shear rate.

Adjective

shear-thickening (not comparable)

  1. whose viscosity increases with increasing shear rate

Antonyms of shear-thickening

Questions about shear-thickening

What does shear-thickening mean?
Shear-thickening means whose viscosity increases with increasing shear rate.
What part of speech is shear-thickening?
Shear-thickening is an adjective.

Words near shear-thickening in the dictionary

  1. shear zone
  2. shear-cake
  3. shear-cakes
  4. shear-pole
  5. shear-poles
  6. shear-thickening
  7. shear-thinning
  8. shearability
  9. shearable
  10. Shearan
  11. shearbill

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