capillarity

capillarity has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• n.. The quality or condition of being capillary.
• n.. The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.
• n.. a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries