Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the deformation and flow of matter.
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- noun physics The branch of physics that studies the deformation and flow of matter.
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- noun the branch of physics that studies the deformation and flow of matter
Etymologies
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Examples
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At this point it requires some rheology of materials, but if the planet were rotating the bulge would remain pointing radially towards the star and the rotation would force the material to deform as it rotates.
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First, in a human blood rheology study, astaxanthin supplementation created significant improvement in capillary blood flow.
Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010
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Having considered a hierarchy of stand-alone sea-ice models with different dynamic parameterizations, SIMIP found the viscous-plastic rheology to provide the best simulation results and adopted it as a starting point for further optimizations [27].
Global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models 2009
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Other developments, including the elastic-viscous-plastic rheology [28], are helpful in acheiving high computational efficiency.
Global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models 2009
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The rheology of the Ellesmere Island ice shelves might be interesting.
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The American Institute of Physics AIP calls itself “A Federation of the Physical Sciences,” including acoustics, astronomy, geophysics, and rheology.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Countries’ Freedom vs. Countries’ Names: 2007
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Lucia provided very good commentary on the rheology of non-Newtonian fluids.
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R., and Holdsworth, G., 1986: An investigation of low-stress ice rheology on the Ward-Hunt Ice Shelf.
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I presume that “ick” is a technical term in rheology.
Guliya Core #2 and Mountain Glacier Flow « Climate Audit 2006
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This article describes some terms common in rheology.
Guliya Core #2 and Mountain Glacier Flow « Climate Audit 2006
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