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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CAPILLARY

a. 1. Resembling a hair, fine, minute, small in diameter, though long; as a capillary tube or pipe; a capillary vessel in animal bodies, such as the ramifications of the blood vessels.
2. In botany, capillary plants are hair-shaped, as the ferns; a term used by Ray, Boerhaave and Morison. This class of plants corresponds to the order of Filices, in the Sexual method, which bear their flower and fruit on the back of the leaf or stalk.
This term is applied also to leaves which are longer than the setaceous or bristle-shaped leaf, to glands resembling hairs, to the filaments, to the style, and to the pappus or down affixed to some seeds.

 

CAPILLARY

n.A fine vessel or canal.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CAPILLARY

Cap "il *la *ry, a. Etym: [L. capillaris, fr. capillus hair. Cf. Capillaire. ]

 

1. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

 

2. Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action. Capillary attraction, Capillary repulsion, the apparent attraction or repulsion between a soild and liquid caused bycapillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction. -- Capillarity tubes. See the Note under Capillarity.

 

CAPILLARY

CAPILLARY Cap "il *la *ry, n.; pl. , Capillaries (.

 

1. A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.

 

2. (Anat. )

 

Defn: A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

capillary

cap il lar y |ˈkapəˌlerē ˈkæpəˌlɛri | ▶noun 1 Anatomy any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules. 2 (also capillary tube ) a tube that has an internal diameter of hairlike thinness. ▶adjective [ attrib. ] of or relating to capillaries or capillarity. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin capillaris, from capillus ‘hair, ’ influenced by Old French capillaire .

 

capillary action

cap il lar y ac tion |ˈkæpəˌlɛri ˈækʃən | ▶noun another term for capillarity.

 

capillary attraction

cap il lar y at trac tion ▶noun the tendency of a liquid in a capillary tube to rise as a result of surface forces.

 

capillary joint

ca ¦pil |lary joint ▶noun a joint made between two pipes by putting their ends into a fitting that is only slightly larger than the pipes and filling the gap with molten solder.

 

Oxford Dictionary

capillary

capillary |kəˈpɪləri | ▶noun ( pl. capillaries ) 1 Anatomy any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules. 2 (also capillary tube ) a tube which has an internal diameter of hair-like thinness. ▶adjective [ attrib. ] relating to capillaries or capillarity. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin capillaris, from capillus ‘hair ’, influenced by Old French capillaire .

 

capillary action

ca ¦pil |lary ac ¦tion ▶noun another term for capillarity.

 

capillary attraction

cap il lar y at trac tion ▶noun the tendency of a liquid in a capillary tube to rise as a result of surface forces.

 

capillary joint

ca ¦pil |lary joint ▶noun a joint made between two pipes by putting their ends into a fitting that is only slightly larger than the pipes and filling the gap with molten solder.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

capillary

cap il lar y /kǽpəlèri |kəpɪ́ləri /名詞 複 -ies C 〘医 〙1 毛細血管 .2 毛細管 (capillary tube ).形容詞 〖名詞 の前で 〗毛細血管のある ; 毛細管の ; 毛のように細い, 毛状の .～̀ á ction [attr á ction ]毛管現象, 毛管作用 .