Meanings
adjectivefluidlike (comparative more fluidlike, superlative most fluidlike)
comparative more fluidlike · superlative most fluidlike
- Resembling a fluid.
By measuring the motion of small probe molecules in a polymer glass, they find fluidlike properties when the glass is sheared; however, the route to melting the glass is different from that followed when it is heated.
2009 January 9, David A. Weitz, “MATERIALS SCIENCE: Unjamming a Polymer Glass”, in Science, volume 323, number 5911, →DOI
Origin
- Latinfluidus
- Middle Englishfluid
- Englishfluid
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishfluidlike
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