Usually means: Small blood vessels, tissue exchange.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. capillary: Merriam-Webster
  2. capillary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capillary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. capillary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. capillary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Capillary, capillary: Wordnik
  7. capillary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Capillary: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. capillary: Wiktionary
  10. capillary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. capillary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. capillary: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. capillary: Dictionary.com
  14. capillary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. capillary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Capillary (blood vessel), Capillary (disambiguation), Capillary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Capillary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. capillary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. capillary: Rhymezone
  20. Capillary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. capillary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. capillary: FreeDictionary.org
  23. capillary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. capillary: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. capillary: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. capillary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Capillary (blood vessel), capillary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. capillary: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Capillary: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Capillary: Scleroderma
  9. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  10. capillary: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. Capillary (blood vessel), capillary: Medical dictionary
  12. Capillary: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. Capillary: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Beauty Glossary (No longer online)
  3. CAPILLARY: Power Engineering

(Note: See capillaries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to hair.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
adjective:  Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
noun:  A narrow tube.
noun:  (anatomy) Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).

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