n. pl. stokes The unit of kinematic viscosity in the centimeter-gram-second system, measured in square centimeters per second. [After Sir George Gabriel STOKES.] |
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British mathematician and physicist who made major contributions to fluid dynamics and to the wave theory of light, describing the phenomena of diffraction and fluorescence and the nature of x-rays. |
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