Sunday, April 6, 2008

Weekly Vocabulary March 21

1. Word / Phrase:quark
Meaning:hypothetical sub-atomic entity with fractional electric charge, the supposed material from which hadrons are built up.
Context: Scientists are trying to figure out a way to get energy out of them.

2. Word / Phrase:viscosity
Meaning:a measure of the resistance of a fluid to being deformed by either shear stress or extensional stress.
Context: A super fluid has a viscosity of zero or close to zero.

3. Word / Phrase:nascent
Meaning:being born; beginning to grow; having enhanced chemical activity at moment of liberation from compound.
Context: My tree is going through nascency.

4. Word / Phrase:kelt
Meaning:salmon after spawning.
Context: I love eating salmon and now i found out some of it is called kelt.

5. Word / Phrase:yahoo
Meaning:depraved person.
Context: Yahoo.com is named after an immortal being.

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