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Coefficient 76% connected

Cooperating; acting together to produce an effect.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Weight 92% connected

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially wh…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Absolute viscosity noun · 86% connection

a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid under an applied force

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Absorptance noun · 86% connection

a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the…

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Absorption coefficient noun · 86% connection

a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the…

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Centile noun · 86% connection

(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of…

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Coefficient of absorption noun · 86% connection

a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the…

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Coefficient of drag noun · 86% connection

the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and the surface area of the body

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Coefficient of expansion noun · 86% connection

the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure

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Coefficient of friction noun · 86% connection

the ratio of the weight of an object being moved along a surface and the force that maintains contact between the object and the surfa…

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Coefficient of mutual induction noun · 86% connection

a measure of the induction between two circuits; the ratio of the electromotive force in a circuit to the corresponding change of curr…

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Coefficient of reflection noun · 86% connection

the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface

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Coefficient of self induction noun · 86% connection

the ratio of the electromotive force produced in a circuit by self-induction to the rate of change of current producing it, expressed…

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Coefficient of viscosity noun · 86% connection

a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid under an applied force

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Drag coefficient noun · 86% connection

the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and the surface area of the body

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Dynamic viscosity noun · 86% connection

a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid under an applied force

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Expansivity noun · 86% connection

the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure

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Modulus noun · 86% connection

(physics) a coefficient that expresses how much of a specified property is possessed by a specified substance

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Mutual inductance noun · 86% connection

a measure of the induction between two circuits; the ratio of the electromotive force in a circuit to the corresponding change of curr…

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Proportional sampling noun · 86% connection

the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum

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Arroba noun · 78% connection

A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avo…

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As noun · 78% connection

A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.

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Baric adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.

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Buoyancy noun · 78% connection

The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a fl…

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Chemical compound noun · 78% connection

(chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight

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Cloff noun · 78% connection

Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general s…

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Combining weight noun · 78% connection

the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen

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Counterpoise verb · 78% connection

To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.

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Crith noun · 78% connection

The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension o…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weight.
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Crush verb · 78% connection

To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weight.
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Drachma noun · 78% connection

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.

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Dram noun · 78% connection

A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce…

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