capillarity
— Noun
– English
~ a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries
capillary
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to hair
capillary
— Adjective
– English
~ long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"
capillary artery
— Noun
– English
~ one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries
capillary action
— Noun
– English
~ a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries
capillary bed
— Noun
– English
~ a layer of tissue densely packed with capillaries
capillary
— Noun
– English
~ any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
capillary
— Noun
– English
~ a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
capital
— Adjective
– English
~ first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
capital
— Adjective
– English
~ of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
capital
— Adjective
– English
~ uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
capital
— Noun
– English
~ one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
capital
— Noun
– English
~ a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia"
capital account
— Noun
– English
~ (economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities