Word Meanings - SURFACETENSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimeter, is considered to equal the radius of the sphere of molecular action, that is, the greatest distance at which there is cohesion between two particles. Particles lying below this film, being equally acted on from all sides, are in equilibrium as to forces of cohesion, but those in the film are on the whole attracted inward, and tension results.

• Breasthook
  A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side.
• Behen
  Alt. of Behn
• Bestower
  One that bestows.
• Brutish
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
• Beaten
  of Beat
• Bridalty
  Celebration of the nuptial feast.
• Belligerently
  In a belligerent manner; hostilely.
• Bewetted
  of Bewet
• Lymphy
  Containing, or like, lymph.
• Bedimmed
  of Bedim
• Broacher
  A spit; a broach.
• Beneficent
  Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.
• Brahmani
  Any Brahman woman.
• BEARSEAR
  A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
• Befouling
  of Befoul
• Brooking
  of Brook
• Berkeleian
  Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy.
• Brave
  Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.
• BRANCHPILOT
  A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.
• Actuation
  A bringing into action; movement.

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