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A drop that never made it big, falling anyway like it owns the sky.
means A droplet is a very small drop of liquid, especially one of the tiny ones that make up mist, spray, or rain.
from From "drop" plus the diminutive "-let," the same little suffix that shrinks a pig into a piglet and a book into a booklet. "Drop" itself is old Germanic stock, related to Old English "dropa" and cousins across the northern tongues, all describing that small falling bead of water. So a droplet is, quite literally, a drop made smaller by a single trailing syllable.
- perfect sphere
- Surface tension pulls tiny droplets into nature's roundest shape
- terminal speed
- Raindrops cap out around 20 mph falling
- flattened, not teardrop
- Large droplets squash into hamburger-bun shapes
- cloud builder
- Millions of droplets cluster to form one visible cloud
- sneeze launch
- Droplets exit a sneeze near 100 mph
raindrop size distribution — largest raindrops are about 6mm diameter before they break apart into smaller droplets
inkjet printer droplet — produces droplets of 10-50 picoliters traveling at 10 meters per second onto paper