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Definition of Capillary action
1. Noun. A phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries.
Definition of Capillary action
1. Noun. The drawing of a liquid (often against gravity) into or up narrow interstices due to surface tension ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Capillary action
1. The phenomenon of a liquid such as water spontaneously creeping up thin tubes and fibres, this is caused by adhesive and cohesive forces and surface tension. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capillary Action
Literary usage of Capillary action
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"capillary action is not confined to tubes, but is exerted among all substances
which are perforated by pores, or subdivided by fissures or interstices. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"Having applied the secondary principle of surface-tension to the various particular
cases of capillary action, Young proceeds to deduce this surface-tension ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1889)
"The following Communications were made to the Society. (1) On the Influence of
capillary action in some ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the Supplement to the Theory of capillary action, Laplace deduced the equation
of the surface oí the fluid from the condition that the resultant ..."
5. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"the most powerful in its effects, of any which has yet appeared.' 12. Capillary
Action.—There is only one other problem of the statics of fluids, ..."
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