fugacity

English

Noun

fugacity (countable and uncountable, plural fugacities)

A measure of the tendency of a fluid to expand or escape.
(physics) A measure of the relative stability of different phases of a substance under the same conditions.
Transience.
- 1983: Jack Vance, Cugel's Saga
  Duke Orbal disallowed it on the grounds of fucacity.

Translations

measure of the tendency of a fluid to expand or escape

Bulgarian: летливост f (letlivost)
Dutch: fugaciteit

Italian: fugacità f

measure of the relative stability of different phases of a substance under the same conditions

Irish: éalaitheacht f

Italian: fugacità f

transience

Bulgarian: мимолетност (bg) f (mimoletnost), краткотрайност (bg) f (kratkotrajnost)

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