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viscoplastic

viscoplastic adjective: describing a material that behaves as a solid below a critical value of stress, but flows like a viscous liquid at greater values of stress.

Adjective

viscoplastic

  1. Describing a material that behaves as a solid below a critical value of stress, but flows like a viscous liquid at greater values of stress.

Origin of viscoplastic

From visco- + plastic.

Words formed from viscoplastic

Questions about viscoplastic

What does viscoplastic mean?
Viscoplastic means describing a material that behaves as a solid below a critical value of stress, but flows like a viscous liquid at greater values of stress.
What part of speech is viscoplastic?
Viscoplastic is an adjective.

Words near viscoplastic in the dictionary

  1. viscometry
  2. viscomital
  3. viscontal
  4. Visconti
  5. Viscontis
  6. viscoplastic
  7. viscoplasticities
  8. viscoplasticity
  9. viscoresistive
  10. Viscos
  11. viscose

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