fluidity

3 definitions found

fluidity - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fluidity \Flu*id"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. fluidit['e].]
     The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid,
     a["e]riform, or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           It was this want of organization, this looseness and
           fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate
           through every class of society.          --J. R. Green.
     [1913 Webster]

fluidity - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fluidity
      n 1: the property of flowing easily; "adding lead makes the
           alloy easier to cast because the melting point is reduced
           and the fluidity is increased"; "they believe that fluidity
           increases as the water gets warmer" [syn: fluidity,
           fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runniness]
      2: a changeable quality; "a charming Oriental fluidity of
         manner"; "a certain fluidness in his perception of time made
         him an unpredictable colleague"; "demographers try to predict
         social fluidity" [syn: fluidity, fluidness]

fluidity - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "fluidity":
     adaptability, adjustability, aeriness, alterability, changeability,
     changeableness, changefulness, chylifaction, chylification,
     ethereality, flatulence, flatuosity, flexibility, flow, fluency,
     fluidness, flux, fluxility, fluxion, gaseity, gaseous state,
     gaseousness, gassiness, impermanence, juiciness, lactation,
     lactescence, liquefaction, liquidness, malleability, milkiness,
     mobility, modifiability, moisture, movability, mutability,
     nonuniformity, permutability, plasticity, resilience, rheuminess,
     rubberiness, sappiness, serosity, succulence, suppleness,
     suppuration, transience, transitoriness, vapor pressure,
     vaporiness, vaporousness, wateriness, windiness