capillation

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A capillary (blood vessel).

   “Nor is the humour contained in smaller veins or obscurer capillations, but in a vesicle or little bladder”

2. isim A branching structure or ramification.

   “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. isim A hairline fracture of the skull.

   “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. isim A pattern of hair-like structures or fine, thread-like projections on the surface of an organism

   “Pedicle-valve ornament of concentrid lamellae and growth lines, faint capillation; spines in row at low angle to hinge, directed laterally, bases subparallel. Brachial-valve ornament similar but no spines; concentric ornament more prominent; traces of fine capillation.”

5. isim 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. isim 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. isim A sympathetic tendency to move towards something

   “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. isim 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.”