superfluidity

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ fluidity.

Pronunciation

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Noun

superfluidity (usually uncountable, plural superfluidities)

1. (physics) The frictionless flow that is characteristic of a fluid with zero viscosity, especially liquid helium at temperatures near absolute zero.

Related terms

• superfluid

Translations

frictionless flow of a fluid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超流性 (chāoliúxìng), 超流動性／超流动性 (chāoliúdòngxìng)

• Finnish: suprajuoksevuus
• French: superfluidité (fr) f
• German: Suprafluidität (de) f
• Hebrew: זורמיות על f (zormiyút al)
• Italian: superfluidità (it) f
• Japanese: 超流動 (ちょうりゅうどう, chōryūdō)
• Kazakh: асқын аққыштық (asqyn aqqyştyq)
• Russian: сверхтеку́честь (ru) f (sverxtekúčestʹ)

See also

• Bose-Einstein condensate

Further reading

• Superfluid helium-4 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia