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Viscosity definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VISCOS'ITY,
VISCOUNT, n. vi'count. [L. vice-comes.]
1. An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count or earl; the sheriff of the country.
2. A degree or title of nobility next in rank to an earl.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow) [syn: viscosity, viscousness]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Etymology: Middle English viscosite, from Anglo-French viscosité, from Medieval Latin viscositat-, viscositas, from Late Latin viscosus viscous Date: 14th century 1. the quality or state of being viscous 2. the property of resistance to flow in a fluid or semifluid 3. the ratio of the tangential frictional force per unit area to the velocity gradient perpendicular to the direction of flow of a liquid — called also coefficient of viscosity

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 the quality or degree of being viscous. 2 Physics a (of a fluid) internal friction, the resistance to flow. b a quantity expressing this. Phrases and idioms: dynamic viscosity a quantity measuring the force needed to overcome internal friction. kinematic viscosity a quantity measuring the dynamic viscosity per unit density. Derivatives: viscosimeter n. Etymology: ME f. OF viscosité or med.L viscositas (as VISCOUS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Viscosity Vis*cos"i*ty, n. [Cf. F. viscosit['e], LL. viscositas.] 1. The quality or state of being viscous. 2. (Physics) A quality analogous to that of a viscous fluid, supposed to be caused by internal friction, especially in the case of gases.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Viscosity is the quality that some liquids have of being thick and sticky. ...the viscosity of the paint. N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Glutinousness, ropiness, tenacity, viscidity. 2. Glutinous substance.

Moby Thesaurus

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