viscosity
/vɪsˈkɑsɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: thickness"
- "The microcannon was seen moving at about a micron per second, it was about 15 microns long, and the high speed photograph was done in water (density of 1 kg/L, viscosity of about 0.001 pascal seconds)."
- "Aquafaba was recovered from 10 commercial canned chickpea products and correlations among aquafaba composition, density, viscosity and foaming properties were investigated. Proton NMR was used to characterize aquafaba composition before and after ultrafiltration through membranes with different molecular weight cut offs (MWCOs of 3, 10, or 50 kDa)."
Etymology
From Middle French viscosité, from Old French viscosité, from Medieval Latin viscositas; analysable as viscous + -ity.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: viscosité, viscositas
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /vɪsˈkɑsɪti/
- British English: /vɪsˈkɒsɪti/