viscoelastic

1. 1.

   having viscous as well as elastic properties

   Similarelastic

   physics

Questions about viscoelastic

What does viscoelastic mean?

viscoelastic means "having viscous as well as elastic properties".

How many syllables are in viscoelastic?

viscoelastic has 5 syllables and divides as vi-sco-e-la-stic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is viscoelastic a common word?

viscoelastic 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.