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LIQUID STATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
Synonyms:
liquid; liquid state; liquidity; liquidness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("liquid state" is a kind of...):
state; state of matter ((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))