Capillarity

Origin

From French capillarité.

Full definition of capillarity

Noun

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.
• 1856 William Somerville Orr - Orr's Circle of the SciencesHence 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.

Synonyms

• capillary action

Anagrams

• piratically