Cavitation Definition

kăvĭ-tāshən
noun
The formation of partial vacuums within a flowing liquid as a result of mechanical force, as with a boat propeller or a pump impeller: when these collapse, pitting or other damage is caused on metal surfaces in contact.
Webster's New World
The pitting of a solid surface.
American Heritage Medicine
The formation of cavities in a body tissue or an organ, especially those formed in the lung as a result of tuberculosis.
American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Cavitation

Noun

Singular:
cavitation
Plural:
cavitations

Origin of Cavitation

  • From cavity

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

Cavitation Sentence Examples

  • This improvement in wetting helps reduce cavitation in liners and water pump.

  • This has been used recently to produce a cavitation model for rubber-toughened adhesives with some success.

  • These bubbles that are produced then immediately collapse, releasing energy that can cause a cavitation burn on the propeller blades.

  • A minimum static inlet pressure must thus be ensured at the pump suction port in order to avoid cavitation.

  • To develop advanced theoretical and computation models of acoustic cavitation and sonochemistry.

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Words Starting With

CCACAV

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With C and Ending With N

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