capillarity

The word capillarity is of Latin derivation, and signifies hair-like slenderness.

A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material Eugene Edward Hall

As already explained on page 10, a process called capillarity enables moisture to rise in the soil as plants need it.

Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902

Between them there lies a thin film of water, drawn in by the attraction known as capillarity, which sucks the fluid into a sponge or between plates of glass placed near together.

Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

Even a completely dead tree with no needles left could draw some water up into itself by an even more passive process called capillarity, the tendency of water to “crawl” into tiny spaces.

O Tannenbaum ewillett 2009

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Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica 2008

He applied these and other insights to an equally impressive range of empirical and theoretical research in observational astronomy, celestial mechanics, surveying, geodesy, capillarity, geomagnetism, electromagnetism, mechanism optics, and actuarial science.

Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich 2009

Whewell brought the point home by identifying competing theories of capillarity, due to Poisson and Laplace, that were equally able to reproduce the phenomena but which were based on incompatible atomic force laws, as Gardner (1979, 20) has pointed out.

Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century Chalmers, Alan 2005

It is necessary rather to know the composition of the substances in question — the geological strata, the atmospheric actions, the quality of the soil, the minerals, the waters, the density of the different bodies, their capillarity, and what not.

Madame Bovary 2003

Water has the effect of introducing mechanical forces due to phenomena of capillarity.

Chapter 5 1995

MOLASSES: A product of the sugar industry, this improves compressive strength and reduces capillarity, A quatity of 5% is suitable for sandy and silty soils.

Chapter 11 1994