Darcy meaning

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A unit used to measure the permeability of porous substances such as soil, equal to the passage of 1 cubic centimeter of fluid having a viscosity of 1 centipoise for 1 second under the pressure of 1 atmosphere through a medium having a volume of 1 cubic centimeter.
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A unit used to measure the permeability of porous substances such as soil. One darcy is equal to the passage of 1 cubic centimeter of fluid having a viscosity of 1 centipoise for 1 second under the pressure of 1 atmosphere through a medium having a volume of 1 cubic centimeter.
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A Norman baronial surname​ from a place d'Arcy in Northern France.
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A male given name, transferred from the surname.
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A female given name of mostly American usage since the mid-twentieth century.
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Origin of darcy

After Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy

Sentence Examples

  • contrive a situation in which Elizabeth declines Darcy's first proposal, thereby demonstrating her indifference to wealth.

  • Jane Austen provides us with Mr. Darcy, the Bingleys and the Bennets.

  • His first wife was Amelia (1754-1784), daughter of Robert Darcy, 4th earl of Holdernesse, who became Baroness Conyers in her own right in 1778.

  • These titles were, however, separated when his son, Francis Godolphin Darcy, the 7th Duke (1798-1859), died without sons in May 1859.

  • P. Darcy (1803-1858) and continued by H.Bazin, at the expense of the French government (Recherches hydrauliques, Paris, 1866).

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