capillarity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.

capillarity capillarities

From French capillarité.

capillary action wicking

meniscus surface tension

elastocapillarity electrocapillarity noncapillarity thermocapillarity

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