Usually means: Cohesive force at liquid surface.
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  1. surface tension: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. surface tension: Merriam-Webster
  3. surface tension: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. surface tension: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. surface tension: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. surface tension: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. surface tension: Wiktionary
  10. surface tension: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. surface tension: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. surface tension: Dictionary.com
  13. Surface Tension (short story), Surface Tension, Surface tension: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  15. surface tension: FreeDictionary.org
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  2. surface tension: Legal dictionary

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  1. surface tension: Encyclopedia

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  1. surface tension: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  2. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Surface Tension: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Surface Tension: Extragalactic Astronomy
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Definitions from Wiktionary (surface tension)

noun:  (physics) the effect on the surface of a liquid that makes it behave as a stretched elastic membrane; it is caused by unbalanced intermolecular forces
noun:  (physics) a measure of this effect

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