SOLID STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solid state mean? 

• SOLID STATE (noun)
  The noun SOLID STATE has 1 sense:

1. the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape

  Familiarity information: SOLID STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLID STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

solid; solid state; solidness

Hypernyms ("solid state" is a kind of...):

state; state of matter ((chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container))

 Context examples 

Water frozen in the solid state.

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