capillation

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. A capillary (blood vessel). obsolete
    — Nor is the humour contained in smaller veins or obscurer capillations, but in a vesicle or little bladder
  2. A branching structure or ramification. broadly,obsolete
    — This Water is between three and four yards deep in all places, with a fine bottom of soft Marle and Sand; from every part of which in a calm day you may perceive the capillations of almost innumerable fountains, which are the principal feeders of the Tarn.
  3. A hairline fracture of the skull. obsolete
    — CAPILLATION, or CAPILLARY fracture, according to some writers, is a fracture in the skull, so small that it can scarce be perceived; but yet it often proves mortal.
  4. A pattern of hair-like structures or fine, thread-like projections on the surface of an organism
    — The fact that the majority of the Burma Terebratulids have been burnt has caused the suggestion to be made that the capillation shows on this account more plainly than it would otherwise do. For in certain cases of decortication of the test a sort of capillation may be observed which does not show under ordinary conditions.
  5. Hair or pelt.
    — The monarch, whose inglorious look (Having a natural-born peruke) Gave rise to this great capillation, Ill treateth sure his gallant nation, And takes too many pains by far In seeking such renown in war,
  6. The movement of liquid by capillary action.
    — the crown of he ridge is isolated, raised out of reach of the re-active moisture from below, that supports the level of herbage of a meadow in long droughts, and confirms the benefit of the draining-tile under a level surface by increased 'capillation' set up in the soil.
  7. A sympathetic tendency to move towards something broadly,figuratively
    — The voice flattens in pitch by the returning resonance wave, have a pitch a trifle lower, which, assisted by the lack of perfect confidence in nearly every singer, draws the voice over by sympathy in capillation.
  8. The problem of extra liquid adhering to the surface of a needle or pipette through capillary action, causing errors in delivering an accurate amount.
    — The main sources of error which oocur during sample application are creep back and capillation.

词形变化

capillations plural

词源

From Latin [Term?] (“hair”).
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