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viscoelastic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English

Syllables
vis-coelas-tic
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Viscous and elastic.

noun

Such a material.

Etymology

Etymology tree English visco- Proto-Indo-European *h₁elh₂- Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₂-tósder. Ancient Greek ἐλᾰστός (elăstós) Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin elasticusbor. French élastiquebor. English elastic English viscoelastic From visco- + elastic.

Inflected Forms

more viscoelastic (comparative) most viscoelastic (superlative) viscoelastics (plural)

Derived Forms

nonviscoelastic poroviscoelastic thermoviscoelastic viscoelastically viscoelasticity viscoelasticplastic viscoelastoplastic

Rhymes With

fantastic plastic enthusiastic drastic sarcastic elastic stochastic monastic dynastic spastic bombastic thermoplastic

Questions

What does viscoelastic mean?
Viscous and elastic.
Where does viscoelastic come from?
Etymology tree English visco- Proto-Indo-European *h₁elh₂- Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₂-tósder. Ancient Greek ἐλᾰστός (elăstós) Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin elasticusbor. French élastiquebor. English elastic English viscoelastic From visco- + elastic.

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