surface tension

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surface tension (countable and uncountable, plural surface tensions)

  1. (physics) the effect on the surface of a liquid that makes it behave as a stretched elastic membrane; it is caused by unbalanced intermolecular forces
  2. (physics) a measure of this effect

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