liquid state

Other forms: liquid states

Definitions of liquid state
  1. noun
    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, liquidity, liquidness
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    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)
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