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fluidize - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause (a solid) to behave like a fluid, as by pulverizing or by suspending pulverized particles in a moving gas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To convert into a fluid; fluidify.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To render fluid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To give
particles ofsolid the properties of afluid , either byshaking or byinjecting gas
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Examples
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As an acute response to such stretches the cytoskeleton can stiffen, increase traction forces and reinforce, as reported by some, or can soften and fluidize, as reported more recently by our laboratory, but in any given circumstance it remains unknown which response might prevail or why.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ramaswamy Krishnan et al. 2009
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[1] In response to stretch, therefore, the cell might either reinforce, a bracing-type of physiological response, or fluidize, a stress-relieving physiological response.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ramaswamy Krishnan et al. 2009
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Words with the same meaning
- aerate
- aerify
- atomize
- carbonate
- chlorinate
- colliquate
- cut
- decoagulate
- decoct
- deliquesce
- dissolve
- distill
- emit
- etherify
- etherize
- evaporate
- exhale
- fluidify
- flux
- fractionate
- fume
- fumigate
- fuse
- gasify
- give off
- hold in solution
- hydrogenate
- infuse
- leach
- liquefy
- liquesce
- liquidize
- lixiviate
- melt
- melt down
- oxygenate
- percolate
- perfume
- reek
- run
- send out
- smoke
- solubilize
- solve
- spray
- steam
- sublimate
- sublime
- thaw
- thin
- unclot
- vaporize
- volatilize
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