Stoff in einem Aggregatzustand zw. dem festen und dem gasförmigen. Die F. unterscheidet sich vom Feststoff durch geringere Dichte und größere Beweglichkeit der Moleküle, vom Gas durch Volumenkonstanz.
1. A continuous amorphous substance that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container: a liquid or a gas.
2. A substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure.
ETYM Cf. French fluidité.
The property of flowing easily; SYN. fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runniness.
1. A substance in the fluid state of matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume.
2. A substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure.
3. The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility; SYN. liquidness, liquidity.
4. (Linguistics) A frictionless non-nasal continuant (especially 'l' and 'r').
State of matter between a solid and a gas. A liquid forms a level surface and assumes the shape of its container. Its atoms do not occupy fixed positions as in a crystalline solid, nor do they have freedom of movement as in a gas. Unlike a gas, a liquid is difficult to compress since pressure applied at one point is equally transmitted throughout (Pascal's principle). Hydraulics makes use of this property.
Liquidity, fluidity, state of being fluid
ETYM Old Eng. licour, licur, Old Fren. licur, French liqueur, from Latin liquor, from liquere to be liquid. Related to Liquid, Liqueur.
1. A liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process.
2. Distilled rather than fermented; SYN. spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink.
3. The liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked; SYN. pot liquor.