microfluidics

  1. Noun.  The science concerned with the design and construction of microminiaturized devices containing chambers and tunnels through which fluids flow in a controlled manner; used to construct labs on a chip, ink-jet printer heads etc.
  2. Noun.  (physics) The study of microfluids.

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