superhydrophobicity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
40
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The quality of being extremely hydrophobic or repellent to water or of not being wetted.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The key to long [battery] life is a property superhydrophobicity. This occurs when a drop of electorlyte or other liquid sits on top of a roughened nanostructured surface instead of wetting it. Zap the droplet with a burst of electricity or heat, however, and it wets the surface in a matter of milliseconds."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English hydro- Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -phobic Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English superhydrophobicity From super- + hydro- + -phobic + -ity.