viscosity
2 antonyms for viscosity — opposites grouped by meaning.
Noun — How thick a liquid is and how strongly it resists flowing; honey has a high viscosity, water a low one.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
How thick a liquid is and how strongly it resists flowing; honey has a high viscosity, water a low one.
“Cold weather raises the viscosity of the oil, so the engine turns over slowly.”
Opposites
2. noun technical
In physics, a measurable property of a fluid equal to the ratio of shear stress to the rate of shear, expressed in units such as the pascal second or the poise.
“The dynamic viscosity of water at 20 °C is about one millipascal second.”
Antonyms
How to use viscosity
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
Everyday in cooking and car maintenance, precise in engineering and physics, where dynamic and kinematic viscosity are distinguished.
Etymology
From Latin viscosus "sticky", from viscum, the sticky birdlime made from mistletoe berries.
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