stokes

Kinematic viscosity measure

Stokes is the plural of stoke, the act of tending a fire by stirring or adding fuel.

More often you'll encounter the verb: to stoke a fire is to feed it, and by extension, to stoke fears, tensions, or enthusiasm is to intensify them.

The speech stoked outrage among voters.

A stoker tends furnaces, especially on ships.

physics

viscosity

Fluid's flow resistance

Reynolds · momentum · diffusion · hydrodynamics · boundary layer · drag · streamline · buoyancy · Bernoulli · pressure

surname

Irish

Of the Emerald Isle

genealogy · ancestry · heritage · lineage · legacy · Cambridge · Victorian · optics · luminescence

units

poise

Graceful, unshakable calm

  • kinematicRelating to pure motion
  • viscometerMeasures fluid flow resistance
  • SIUniversal measurement framework

measurement · fluidity

Opposites
fire/intensity management

stokesextinguishes

Causes to stop burning

douses · smothers · quenches · dampens · puts out

emotional/situational intensification

stokescalms

Reduces agitation

dampens · suppresses · quells · soothes · pacifies

viscosity measurement type

stokespoise

Graceful, unshakable calm

Phrases
Family

stoke, stoked, stoker, stoking, stokers, restoked, restoke, restokes

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