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tensão superficial

Portuguese, noun

tensão superficial is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “surface tension (effect on the surface of a liquid that makes it behave as a stretched elastic membrane)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does tensão superficial mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininesurface tension (effect on the surface of a liquid that makes it behave as a stretched elastic membrane)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

phrase: 1. efeito que ocorre na camada superficial de um líquido que leva a sua superfície a se comportar como uma membrana elástica

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of tensão superficial

  • tensões superficiais plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).