Capillary (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

adjective
  1. pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore.
  2. resembling a strand of hair; hairlike.
  3. Physics.
    • pertaining to capillarity.
    • of or relating to the apparent attraction or repulsion between a liquid and a solid, observed in capillarity.
  4. pertaining to a capillary or capillaries.
noun, plural cap·il·lar·ies.
  1. one of the minute blood vessels between the terminations of the arteries and the beginnings of the veins.
  2. a tube with a small bore.
adjective
  1. resembling a hair; slender
  2. (of tubes) having a fine bore
  3. of or relating to any of the delicate thin-walled blood vessels that form an interconnecting network between the arterioles and the venules
  4. of or relating to capillarity
noun plural -laries
  1. any of the capillary blood vessels
  2. a fine hole or narrow passage in any substance
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