(capillarity)
111mutual attraction — Synonyms and related words: accord, addition, adduction, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, allurement, approximation, assemblage, association, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, bent, bias, bond, capillarity,… …
112pull — Synonyms and related words: abandon, accomplish, adduct, adduction, affinity, allure, allurement, amperage, appeal, apprehend, armipotence, arrest, arrive, assume, attack, attract, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, authority …
113pulling power — Synonyms and related words: adduction, affinity, allurement, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, capillarity, capillary attraction, centripetal force, draft, drag, draw, drawing, drayage, extraction, gravitation, gravity,… …
114sympathy — Synonyms and related words: abetment, accord, accordance, addition, adduction, adjunct, advocacy, aegis, affairs, affectionateness, affections, affective faculty, affectivity, affiliation, affinity, agape, agreement, aid and comfort, allergy,… …
115traction — Synonyms and related words: adduction, adhesion, advantage, affinity, allurement, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, capillarity, capillary attraction, centripetal force, draft, drag, draw, drawing, drayage, extraction,… …
116tug — Synonyms and related words: adduct, adduction, affinity, allurement, attract, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, back band, backstrap, battle, be magnetic, bearing rein, bellyband, bit, blinders, blinds, breeching, bridle,… …
117suction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. inhalation, extraction; absorption, siphonage, capillarity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sucking, the force of a vacuum, effect of atmospheric pressures; see attraction , power 2 , pull 1 …
118Lippman, Gabriel — (1845–1921) French physicist and Nobel laureate, 1953. Lippman was in 1883 appointed professor of probability and mathematical physics at the Sorbonne. As a result of his work on electro capillarity and colour photography, Lippman was awarded… …
Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament
119capillary — 1650s (adj.), 1660s (n.), from L. capillaris of hair, from capillus hair (of the head); probably related to caput head. Borrowed earlier as capillar (14c.). Capillary attraction attested from 1813. Capillarity is recorded from 1830, from Fr.… …
120capillary action — noun another term for capillarity …
