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CAPILLARY ACTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries
Synonyms:
capillarity; capillary action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("capillary action" is a kind of...):
surface tension (a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces)