viscosity

English

Etymology

From Middle French viscosité, from Old French viscosité, from Medieval Latin viscositas; analysable as viscous +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɪsˈkɑsɪti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɪsˈkɒsɪti/
• Rhymes: -ɒsɪti
• Hyphenation: vis‧cos‧i‧ty

Noun

viscosity (countable and uncountable, plural viscosities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being viscous.
2. (countable, physics) A quantity expressing the magnitude of internal friction in a fluid, as measured by the force per unit area resisting uniform flow.
   • 2018 October 3, Youn Young Shim; Rana Mustafa; Jianheng Shen; Kornsulee Ratanapariyanuch; Martin J. T. Reaney, “Composition and Properties of Aquafaba: Water Recovered from Commercially Canned Chickpeas”, in Journal of Visualized Experiments‎^[1], volume 132, DOI:10.3791/56305, PMID 29553544:

     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).

3. (uncountable, psychology) A tendency to prolong interpersonal encounters.

Antonyms

• fluidity

Derived terms

• bulk viscosity
• elastoviscosity
• gyroviscosity
• hyperviscosity
• microviscosity
• shear viscosity
• viscosity printing

 

Translations

state of being viscous

• Afrikaans: viskositeit (af)
• Catalan: viscositat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粘性 (zh) (niánxìng), 粘度 (zh) (niándù)

• Dutch: viscositeit (nl)
• Finnish: viskoosisuus (fi)
• French: viscosité (fr) f
• Galician: viscosidade (gl) f
• Georgian: სიბლანტე (siblanṭe), მწებვარობა (mc̣ebvaroba)
• German: Zähflüssigkeit (de) f, Viskosität (de) f

• Hindi: श्यानता (hi) f (śyāntā)
• Ido: viskozeso (io)
• Irish: bealaitheacht f, glóthaí f, righneacht f, slaodacht f
• Japanese: 粘性 (ねんせい, nensei), 粘度 (ねんど, nendo)
• Malay: kelikatan
• Portuguese: viscosidade f
• Russian: вя́зкость (ru) f (vjázkostʹ)
• Slovene: viskóznost f
• Spanish: viscosidad f

physics: quantity expressing the magnitude of internal friction in a fluid

• Afrikaans: viskositeit (af)
• Arabic: لِزُوْجَة‎ (lizuwja)
• Bengali: সান্দ্রতা (śandrôta)
• Dutch: viscositeit (nl)
• Finnish: viskositeetti (fi)
• French: viscosité (fr) f
• Georgian: სიბლანტე (siblanṭe), მწებვარობა (mc̣ebvaroba)
• German: Viskosität (de) f
• Greek: ιξώδες (el) n (ixódes)
• Hindi: श्यानता (hi) f (śyāntā)
• Irish: righneas m, slaodacht f

• Japanese: 粘度 (ねんど, nendo)
• Malay: kelikatan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: viskositet m

• Polish: lepkość (pl) f
• Portuguese: viscosidade f
• Russian: вя́зкость (ru) f (vjázkostʹ)
• Slovene: viskóznost f
• Swedish: viskositet (sv) c
• Tagalog: lapuyot
• Telugu: స్నిగ్ధత (snigdhata)