Liquid vs Nematic - What's the difference?
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(physics) A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
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Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
(finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
(finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth.
Fluid and transparent.
(physics, chemistry, of certain liquid crystals) Whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.
A liquid crystal whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.
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As nouns the difference between liquid and nematic
is that liquid is a substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid while nematic is a liquid crystal whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.As adjectives the difference between liquid and nematic
is that liquid is flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure while nematic is whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.liquid
English
(wikipedia liquid)Noun
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Usage notes
The differentiation of a liquid as an incompressible fluid is not strictly correct, experiment having shown that liquids are compressible to a very limited extent. See fluid.Coordinate terms
* solid * gasSee also
* fluidAdjective
(en adjective)- liquid nitrogen
- a liquid melody
- L and R are liquid letters.
- the liquid air
Antonyms
* (flowing freely) solid; gaseous * (easily sold) illiquid * (having sufficient activity) illiquidExternal links
* * English refractory feminine rhymesnematic
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* nematic phaseSee also
* cholesteric * smecticNoun
(en noun)page 147,
- It is easy to see, however, that the same coefficients in nematics determine the adiabatic deformations also.
page 368,
- For low-molecular-weight nematics', it has been known that the constitutive equation of ' nematics is entirely different from that for isotropic liquids.
page 274,
- Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in nematics could be classified according to the dependence of the threshold voltage (or field) on the physical parameters of the liquid crystal, cell geometry, field frequency, etc.