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Definition of Coefficient of viscosity
1. Noun. A measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid under an applied force.
Medical Definition of Coefficient of viscosity
1. The value of the force per unit area required to maintain a unit relative velocity between two parallel planes a unit distance apart. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coefficient Of Viscosity
Literary usage of Coefficient of viscosity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1905)
"So, however, it has been, and one of the many causes of delay has been the
necessity of making a re-determination of the coefficient of viscosity of air; ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"187) "From these measures [by Crookes] it resulted that Maxwell's law of the
constancy of the coefficient of viscosity in actual gases holds down to ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The coefficient of viscosity must be denned in terms of directly measurable
quantities. ... It is given in terms of /i, tho coefficient of viscosity, ..."
4. A Text-book of Physics: Heat by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"... Transpiration—The Mean Free Path—The MFP calculated from the Coefficient of
Viscosity—Conduction of Heat in Gases—The Diameter of the Molecules and the ..."
5. A Treatise on Hydrodynamics: With Numerous Examples by Alfred Barnard Basset (1888)
"The Coefficient of Viscosity. 476. The determination of the numerical value of
the coefficient of viscosity is of considerable importance, and numerous ..."
6. Theory of Heat by James Clerk Maxwell (1904)
"DEFINITION OF THE coefficient of viscosity. Consider a stratum of the substance
of thickness c, con tained between the horizontal fixed plane FlG 4<xAB and ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1867)
"The coefficient of viscosity is independent of the density, the temperature being
... The coefficient of viscosity of hydrogen is much less than that of ..."
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