absolute viscosity

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscoefficient of viscositydynamic viscosity

   Broadercoefficient

Questions about absolute viscosity

What does absolute viscosity mean?

absolute viscosity means "a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid under an applied force".

What is another word for absolute viscosity?

Close synonyms include coefficient of viscosity, dynamic viscosity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is absolute viscosity a common word?

absolute viscosity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.