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shear-thinning

shear-thinning adjective: whose viscosity decreases with increasing shear rate.

Adjective

shear-thinning (not comparable)

  1. whose viscosity decreases with increasing shear rate
    Synonyms:
    pseudoplastic

Synonyms of shear-thinning

Antonyms

Questions about shear-thinning

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

Words near shear-thinning in the dictionary

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

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