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Liquidity   Listen
noun
Liquidity  n.  The state or quality of being liquid.






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"Liquidity" Quotes from Famous Books



... Flemming, what do you think of that Rembrandt?" said he, pointing to a picture onthe wall. "Exquisite picture! The grandeur of sentiment and splendor of chiaroscuro are of the first order. Just observe the liquidity of the water, and the silveryness of the clouds! Great power! There is a bravura of handling in that picture, Sir, which requires the eye of ...
— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... composed, and therefore the letters must have a meaning. The framers of language were aware of this; they observed that alpha was adapted to express size; eta length; omicron roundness; nu inwardness; rho accent rush or roar; lambda liquidity; gamma lambda the detention of the liquid or slippery element; delta and tau binding; phi, psi, sigma, xi, wind and cold, and so on. Plato's analysis of the letters of the alphabet shows a wonderful insight into the nature of language. He does not expressively ...
— Cratylus • Plato

... in form according to the liquidity of the lava. Domes of gentle slope, as those of Hawaii, for example, are formed of basalt, which flows to long distances before it congeals. When superheated and emitted from many vents, this easily melted lava builds great plateaus, such as that of Iceland. On the other hand, lavas less fusible, ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton



Words linked to "Liquidity" :   interchangeableness, fluidness, fungibility, state of matter, fluidity, liquidity crisis, state, liquid state, runniness, liquidness, thinness, exchangeability, liquid



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