Viscosity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Viscosity \Vis*cos"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. viscosit['e], LL.
     viscositas.]
     1. The quality or state of being viscous.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Physics) A property possessed by a viscous fluid, being a


        resistance to the forces causing a fluid to flow, caused
        by interactions between the molecules of the fluid and
        between the fluid and the walls of the conduit through
        which it moves; also, a measure of such a property.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  viscosity
       n : resistance of a liquid to sheer forces (and hence to flow)
           [syn: {viscousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "viscosity":
     adhesiveness, bullheadedness, clabbering, clamminess, closeness,
     clotting, coagulation, cohesiveness, colloidality, compactness,
     congestedness, congestion, consistence, consistency, crowdedness,
     curdling, denseness, density, doughiness, firmness, gelatinity,
     gelatinousness, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness,
     gumlikeness, gumminess, hardness, heaviness, impenetrability,
     impermeability, imporosity, incompressibility, incrassation,
     inspissation, jammedness, jellification, jellylikeness, lentor,
     mucilaginousness, obstinacy, pastiness, persistence, persistency,
     relative density, retention, ropiness, slabbiness, sliminess,
     snugness, solidity, solidness, specific gravity, spissitude,
     stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, stodginess, stringiness,
     stubbornness, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity,
     thickening, thickness, tightness, toughness, treacliness,
     viscidity, viscousness