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fluidal en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈfluːɪdəl/ (UK)

Etymology

From fluid + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to a fluid, or to a flowing motion.
    • The contours of their bodies […] had dissolved at the edges, resembling, as it occurred to me, said Austerlitz, the frayed outlines of the human hand shown in the fluidal pictures and electrographs taken by Louis Draget in Paris around the turn of the century. 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 348:

Deriveds

fluidally · microfluidal

Synonyms

fluidic