| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| thixotropy |
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| SYLLABICATION: | thix·ot·ro·py |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  th k-s t r -p |
| NOUN: | The property exhibited by certain gels of becoming fluid when stirred or shaken and returning to the semisolid state upon standing. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Greek thixis, touch (from thinganein, thig-, to touch; see dheigh- in Appendix I) + –tropy. | | OTHER FORMS: | thix o·tropic (thks-trpk) —ADJECTIVE
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