FUGACITY

fugacity, fugaciousness

(noun) the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)

fugacity

(noun) the tendency of a gas to expand or escape

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

fugacity (countable and uncountable, plural fugacities)

A measure of the tendency of a fluid to expand or escape.

(physics) A measure of the relative stability of different phases of a substance under the same conditions.

Transience.

Synonyms

• (transience): ephemerality, impermanence, transiency; see also transience

Source: Wiktionary


Fu*gac"i*ty, a. Etym: [L fugacitas: cf. F. fugacité.]

1. The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle.

2. Uncertainty; instability. Johnson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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27 June 2025

SQUARE

(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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