Definition of liquid state Liquid state
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| liquid state - the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility | ||
| liquid, liquidness, liquidity | ||
| state of matter, state (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container); "the solid state of water is called ice" | ||
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liquid state
A state of matter intermediate between that of crystalline substances and gases in which a substance has the capacity to flow under extremely small shear stresses and conforms to the shape of a confining vessel, but is relatively incompressible, lacks the capacity to expand without limit, and can posses a free surface.
