Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

viscance

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vis-cance
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The amount of energy that dissipates due to flow in a viscous system.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Figure 9 also shows the individual amounts of work performed in overcoming elasticity, tissue viscance, and airway resistance."
"In the intervening region of instability, airway viscance and parenchymal elastance are of the same order, and the derivative of P_A with respect to airway resistance is near its maximum."
"P_A - Pₚₗ is the pressure difference between the alveoli and the pleural space, which contains tissue viscance and the elastic recoil pressure of the lung (Pₑₗ)."

Usage

Inflected Forms

viscances (plural)

Questions

What does viscance mean?: The amount of energy that dissipates due to flow in a viscous system.

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