Meaning of FUGACITY
| Pronunciation: | | fyoo'gasitee
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)
- [n] the tendency of a gas to expand or escape
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| | Synonyms: | | fugaciousness |
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| | See Also: | | physical property, transience, transiency, transitoriness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fu*gac"i*ty\, a. [L fugacitas: cf. F. fugacit['e].]
1. The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility;
as, fugacity of spirits. --Boyle.
2. Uncertainty; instability. --Johnson.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | In general, "fugacity" is applied to the tendency for a substance to move from one environmental compartment to another. Originally the term was applied to the tendency of a gas to expand or escape and related to its pressure in the system being studied. |
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| | Related Terms: | | caducity, changeableness, corruptibility, death, ephemerality, ephemeralness, evanescence, finitude, fleetingness, impermanence, impermanency, instability, momentariness, mortality, mutability, perishability, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, volatility |
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