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thermocapillary

thermocapillary adjective: describing the effect of surfaces (and hence capillaries) on heat transfer (and on the movement of bodies by such convection).

Adjective

thermocapillary (not comparable)

  1. Describing the effect of surfaces (and hence capillaries) on heat transfer (and on the movement of bodies by such convection)

Origin of thermocapillary

From thermo- + capillary.

Questions about thermocapillary

What does thermocapillary mean?
Thermocapillary means describing the effect of surfaces (and hence capillaries) on heat transfer (and on the movement of bodies by such convection).
What part of speech is thermocapillary?
Thermocapillary is an adjective.

Words near thermocapillary in the dictionary

  1. thermobox
  2. thermoboxes
  3. thermocamera
  4. thermocameras
  5. thermocapillarity
  6. thermocapillary
  7. thermocatalytic
  8. thermocatheter
  9. thermocatheters
  10. thermocautery
  11. thermoception

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