Viscous Definition

vĭskəs
adjective
Having relatively high resistance to flow.
American Heritage
Having a cohesive and sticky fluid consistency; viscid.
Webster's New World
Having viscosity.
Webster's New World

(physics) Of or pertaining to viscosity.

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Origin of Viscous

  • First attested in 1605. From Middle French viscous and Late Latin viscōsus, from viscum (“birdlime").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Late Latin viscōsus viscose

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Viscous Sentence Examples

  • It is the viscous or graisse disease.

  • Slough The term for the viscous yellow layer which often covers the wound and is strongly adherent to it.

  • These foods often produce very viscous intragastric chyme and this program is designed to find out how the stomach deals with such food.

  • Before work begins the temperature is lowered sufficiently to render the glass viscous.

  • Certain nerve fibres from the sympathetic nervous system, which can also cause the secretion of a (specially viscous) saliva, are entirely unaffected by atropine.

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VVIVIS

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SUSOUS

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