viscosidade
Galician
Noun
viscosidade f (plural viscosidades)
Related terms
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /vis.ko.ziˈda.d͡ʒi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /viʃ.ko.ziˈda.d͡ʒi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /vis.ko.ziˈda.de/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /viʃ.ku.ziˈda.dɨ/ [viʃ.ku.ziˈða.ðɨ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /biʃ.ku.ziˈda.dɨ/ [biʃ.ku.ziˈða.ðɨ]
- Rhymes: -ad͡ʒi, -adɨ
- Hyphenation: vis‧co‧si‧da‧de
Noun
viscosidade f (plural viscosidades)
- viscosity
- quality or state of being viscous
- (physics) a property of fluids that means they offer resistance to flow, which in liquids decreases as the temperature rises, but in gases increases as the temperature rises
- property of a body undergoing permanent deformations under the action of a stress, with stresses being linear functions of deformation speeds
Further reading
- “viscosidade”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “viscosidade”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025