Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of creeping or crawling on the belly, as a reptile does.
- noun In mathematics, the motion of one plane figure around another, so as constantly to be tangent to the latter while preserving parallelism between different positions of its own lines; especially, such a motion of one figure round another precisely like it so that the longest diameter of one shall come into line with the shortest of the other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The act of creeping.
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- noun
creep - noun physics A
creeping thermal motion ofentangled linear polymers
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Examples
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Snails move by a kind of locomotion called reptation
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Another is the "reptation" model, which describes the serpentine motion of a polymer chain within a "tangle" of surrounding polymer chains.
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The reptation model leads to a smaller exponent (v = 3) than the measured one
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If you pull it slowly in comparison with the reptation time, the material flows like a very viscous liquid.
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Established players can use their reptation and existing customers to ceate the initial buzz.
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