LIQUID STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liquid state mean? 

• LIQUID STATE (noun)
  The noun LIQUID STATE has 1 sense:

1. the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility

  Familiarity information: LIQUID STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIQUID STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

liquid; liquid state; liquidity; liquidness

Hypernyms ("liquid state" is a kind of...):

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))

 Context examples 

Nitrogen in a liquid state, having been super-cooled to about -200 degrees Celsius.

(Liquid Nitrogen, NCI Thesaurus)

A dosage form consisting of a pure chemical in its liquid state.

(Liquid Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This preparation, Mrs. Crupp, after some difficulty, consented to warm up; and it shrunk so much in a liquid state, that we found it what Steerforth called “rather a tight fit” for four.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Information regarding the subject's meal consumption, such as fluid intake, amounts, form (solid or liquid state), frequency, etc., typically used for pharmacokinetic analysis.

(Meal Data Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Issue associated with a solid device or device components being transformed into a molten or liquid state.

(Molten Medical Device Material, Food and Drug Administration)

Lotty, with Teutonic phlegm, was calmly eating bread and currant wine, for the jelly was still in a hopelessly liquid state, while Mrs. Brooke, with her apron over her head, sat sobbing dismally.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As one of the world's leading "planet hunters," San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane focuses on finding habitable zones, areas where water could exist in a liquid state on a planet's surface if there's sufficient atmospheric pressure.

(Searching for Life on Wolf 1061 Exoplanet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

As this plateau is, in its very nature, highly volcanic, and as asphalt is a substance which one associates with Plutonic forces, I cannot doubt that it exists in the free liquid state, and that the creatures may have come in contact with it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)