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Webster 1913 Edition
Capillarity
Capˊil-lar′i-ty
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
capillarité
.] 1.
The quality or condition of being capillary.
2.
(Physics)
The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.
☞ Capillarity depends upon the relative attraction of the modecules of the liquid for each other and for those of the solid, and is especially observable in capillary tubes, where it determines the ascent or descent of the liquid above or below the level of the liquid which the tube is dipped; – hence the name.
Definition 2024
capillarity
capillarity
English
Noun
capillarity (plural capillarities)
- 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.
- 1856 William Somerville Orr - Orr's Circle of the Sciences
- 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
Translations
interaction between the surface of a solid and liquid
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