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Capillarity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries wordnet

Etymology

From French capillarité.

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