specific gravity as a noun: - 1
specific gravity
noun
1 specific gravity
The density of a substance relative to the density of water.
Roget 319:
gravity,
gravitation;
weight;
heaviness
etc.
adj.;
specific gravity;
pondorosity†,
pressure,
load;
burden,
burthen†;
ballast,
counterpoise;
lump of,
mass of,
weight of.
lead,
millstone,
mountain,
Ossa on Pelion.
weighing,
ponderation†,
trutination†;
weights;
avoirdupois weight,
troy weight,
apothecaries' weight;
grain,
scruple,
drachma†,
ounce,
pound,
lb,
arroba†,
load,
stone,
hundredweight,
cwt,
ton,
long ton,
metric ton,
quintal,
carat,
pennyweight,
tod†.
[metric weights]
gram,
centigram,
milligram,
microgram,
kilogram;
nanogram,
picogram,
femtogram,
attogram.
[Weighing Instrument]
balance,
scale,
scales,
steelyard,
beam,
weighbridge†;
spring balance,
piezoelectric balance,
analytical balance,
two-pan balance,
one-pan balance;
postal scale,
baby scale.
[Science of gravity]
statics.
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Roget 321:
density,
solidity;
solidness
etc.
adj.;
impenetrability,
impermeability;
incompressibility;
imporosity†;
cohesion
etc.
46;
constipation,
consistence,
spissitude†.
specific gravity;
hydrometer,
areometer†.
condensation;
caseation†;
solidation†,
solidification;
consolidation;
concretion,
coagulation;
petrification
etc.
(hardening)
323;
crystallization,
precipitation;
deposit,
precipitate;
inspissation†;
gelation,
thickening
etc.
v..
indivisibility,
indiscerptibility†,
insolubility,
indissolvableness.
solid body,
mass,
block,
knot,
lump;
concretion,
concrete,
conglomerate;
cake,
clot,
stone,
curd,
coagulum;
bone,
gristle,
cartilage;
casein,
crassamentum†;
legumin†.
superdense matter,
condensed states of matter;
dwarf star,
neutron star.
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