单词 | fugacity |
释义 | fugacity (once / 60612 pages) 1n 2n Fugacity is the quality of impermanence. With plants, fugacity refers to the parts that drop off. In chemistry, it’s the tendency of a gas to expand till it dissipates. Fugacity can also refer to things that don’t last, like youth. Anything fugacious is prone to run away or escape. The noun form, fugacity, has two related meanings. The first is the quality possessed by gases that expand and eventually dissipate. Some gases have more fugacity than others. Similarly, fugacity refers to changeableness in general. Anything that is prone to change, erode, or die possesses fugacity. If something is eternal and unchanging, it lacks fugacity. WORD FAMILYfugacity: fugacious+/fugacious: fugaciousness USAGE EXAMPLESFugacity is not the action for hard work or labour. Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol...(2010) The best of pigments may be ruined by their injudicious use, and obtain a character for fugacity which they in no way deserve. Salter, Thomas, Field's Chromatography—or Treatise...(2010) He perceives the independence of the thought on the symbol, the stability of the thought, the accidency and fugacity of the symbol. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Essays — Second Series(2010) 1 n the tendency of a gas to expand or escape 2Hyper physical property any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions n the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts) Syn|Hyper fugaciousness transience, transiency, transitoriness an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying |
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