Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being fugacious; disposition to flee or escape; volatility; transitoriness.
Wiktionary
- n. A measure of the tendency of a fluid to expand or escape
- n. physics A measure of the relative stability of different phases of a substance under the same conditions
- n. Transience
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility.
- adj. Uncertainty; instability.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)
- n. the tendency of a gas to expand or escape
Examples
“For example, a profile of the fugacity (partial pressure corrected for the fact that the gas is not ideal) of CO2 (f CO2) shows that Pacific-origin waters below 50 m in Canada Basin are oversaturated due to their origin in the productive Bering/Chukchi Seas (see Fig. 9.34).”
“Profiles of the fugacity (partial pressure corrected for the fact that the gas is not ideal) of CO2 in Canada Basin and the Eurasian Basin.”
“Estimating pesticide environmental risk scores with land use data and fugacity equilibrium models in Misiones, Argentina [An article from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment] by J. Ares”
“The concentration of dissolved CO2 and the fugacity of gaseous CO2, fCO2, then obey the equation [CO2] = K0 × fCO2.”
“The fugacity is practically equal to the partial pressure, pCO2 (within ~1%).”
“Finally, the fugacity is calculated from the mixing ratio. pH is usually measured using a glass/reference electrode cell or spectrophotometrically using an indicator dye.”
“To further muddy the waters introduce the idea of gas fugacity – given constant P and T, greenschist assemblages can be amphibolite simply by increasing O2 fugacity.”
“A fugue may be at its best when it has all the virtues of fugacity; but law is not best when it excels in legality; law must also be just.”
“Emerson, differing from the tradition of Swedenbor - gian “correspondences” on which he drew, insists on the “accidency and fugacity” of the symbol.”
“It is so serviceable a pigment for so many purposes, especially in admixture, that its sin of fugacity is overlooked.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fugacity’.
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 238 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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Words to describe behavior
aberrant, hubris, calumny, sequester, ebullient, malfeasance, salubrious, foible, mercurial, laconic, fugacity, recalcitrant and 7 more...
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Last Words
Endings, results, and pinnacles. The ideal here is to somehow imply the paradoxical concept of "after-endings".
consequence, aftermath, finality, outcome, postmundane, endgame, redound, cloture, bourne, meridian, memento mori, psychopomp and 72 more...
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Greg's List
precarious, transient, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, transitoriness, volatility, caducity, span, interregnum, effervescent, mine and 63 more...
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moving constants
insteadfast, assid tests, isentropic, swerveless, scedastic, stableful, fixure, compoise, still, withoutcessant, Cassini ovals, conchoid and 54 more...
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Wicked Cool Words
These words have been posted on my vocabulary tumblr, wickedcoolwords.tumblr.com!
miasma, libation, laconic, denigrating, deontic, accinge, liquescent, quagmire, exiguous, dirigible, lambasted, lambaste and 89 more...
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Not Quite As Awful As They Sound
masticate, absquatulate, adumbrate, afflatus, fetial, anile, bilabial, cineaste, smew, copse, piebald, testudinate and 156 more...
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Useful and scientificlike words
inchoate, referendum, senescence, fugacity, protoplasmic, paroxysm, agglomerate, ebullient
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msc's Words
pugilist, threepeat, bloviate, palaver, syncreism, pastiche, eschatology, peripatetic, glossolalia, busker, nudnik, troglodyte and 213 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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Exquisite.
Words to my liking. (The most lovelybeautifulintricatecondecendinggratuitous.)
unequivocally, destitute, prudent, sagacious, circumspect, discreet, rash, forethought, evince, judicious, shrewd, extravagant and 227 more...
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Words of the Dying Earth
Tales of the Dying Earth is a 2002 anthology volume featuring four novels by Jack Vance: The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous.
Throughou...deodar, deodand, pelgrane, leucomorph, blister-bush, russet, black burdock, gunmetal, spatterlight, carrack, concertina, terce and 280 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
Tweets
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bilby *giggles* Sep 26, 2008