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means The quality of flowing smoothly and easily, whether describing liquids, movements, language, or the way something adapts to changing circumstances.
from From Latin 'fluidus,' meaning 'flowing,' from the verb 'fluere,' 'to flow' — the same restless root that gives us 'fluid,' 'flux,' 'fluent,' and 'influence' (literally a 'flowing-in'). English picked it up by way of French in the 17th century, and the watery sense soon spread to anything that moves without stiffness.
- physics
- Glass technically flows, just over millions of years
- body
- Humans are roughly 60 percent flowing water
- non-newtonian
- Cornstarch goo turns solid when you punch it
- language
- Fluent speech borrows the same root as flow
- economics
- Liquidity means money that moves without friction
water's viscosity change — water flows 100x faster at 40°c than at 0°c due to molecular kinetic energy
mercury at room temperature — flows as a liquid at 20°c with viscosity 1.5× that of water, but freezes solid at -39°c