dilatancy

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The property of dilating or expanding, especially by means of an increase in space between the component parts.
2. noun The phenomenon of some substances whose viscosity increases with shear rate, or with pressure.

Similar words

dilatedness expandingness dilatoriness expandedness enlargedness distensability diluteness stretchedness densification inflatedness

Often followed by

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Word family

dilatancies