Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to dilate; dilating.
- adjective Exhibiting dilatancy.
- noun A dilator.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dilating; relating to dilatancy, or to a substance possessing this property.
- noun A substance having the property of dilatancy.
- noun In surgery, an instrument used to dilate, as a tent, a bougie, a sound, etc.
- noun In physical, the liquid or gas, within a dilatometer, the expansion of which is to be measured.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
dilate , or causingdilation - adjective physics Exhibiting
dilatancy - noun A
dilator . - noun physics A substance whose
viscosity increases with rate ofshear .
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Examples
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(Hint: Putty behaves as a "dilatant," which means it reacts differently to hard, fast pressure than it does to slow, even pressure.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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The first is a link to a video on YouTube, and the second goes to the wikipedia page on dilatant.
ianrandalstrock's Journal ianrandalstrock 2009
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I like this video better though - it shows how sound waves from a subwoofer produce interesting shapes in a dilatant.
January 12th, 2007 curufea 2007
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We refer to this fluid as a shear thickening, or dilatant, fluid.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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According to WSJ, Dow-Corning sells most of its 100,000-pound annual production of dilatant compound to Crayola maker, Binney & Smith Inc., in Easton, PA, which processes it and sells it under its Silly Putty brand.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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Most will hold back for a while until they feel that you are really cinsear and not just another dilatant passing thru.
Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway! 2003
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Most will hold back for a while until they feel that you are really cinsear and not just another dilatant passing thru.
Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway! 2003
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Most will hold back for a while until they feel that you are really cinsear and not just another dilatant passing thru.
Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway! 2003
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Most will hold back for a while until they feel that you are really cinsear and not just another dilatant passing thru.
Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway! 2003
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Most will hold back for a while until they feel that you are really cinsear and not just another dilatant passing thru.
Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway! 2003
thinkcharlene commented on the word dilatant
Law & Order - Season 12, Episode 8 - "The Fire This Time"
June 11, 2007
seanahan commented on the word dilatant
Are you sure you didn't hear dilettante?
June 12, 2007
reesetee commented on the word dilatant
Don't know what thinkcharlene heard, but (to my surprise) this is actually a word. A dilatant material is one in which viscosity increases with the rate of shear (also termed shear thickening)--like Silly Putty. :-)
June 12, 2007
seanahan commented on the word dilatant
I also looked up this word, but it didn't sound like something that would be said in Law and Order.
June 13, 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word dilatant
See citation in comment on rheopexy.
April 7, 2017