osmotic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ɒsˈmɒtɪk/ (UK)
- /ɒzˈmɒtɪk/ (UK)
- /ɑzˈmɑtɪk/ (US)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɑsˈmɑtɪk/ (US)
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Relating to, or powered by, osmosis.
We saw them waking, we heard them sleeping, we sensed them dreaming, we were permeated completely with the strange Gray Myth of the West and the weird dark Myth of the East when morning came. All my actions since then have been dictated automatically to my subconscious by this horrible osmotic experience.
1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 3:
Deriveds
hyperosmotic · osmotic pump · endoosmotic · endosmotic · nonosmotic · microosmotic · iso-osmotic · chemiosmotic · electroosmotic · osmoticum · normoosmotic · exosmotic · miniosmotic · isosmotic · hypoosmotic · hydroosmotic · osmolarity · osmotics · electro-osmotic · osmotic pressure · osmotically · equiosmotic
Translations (19)
sv osmotisk (of or relating to osmosis) · nb osmotisk (of or relating to osmosis) · cs osmotický (of or relating to osmosis) · ru осмоти́ческий (of or relating to osmosis) · nn osmotisk (of or relating to osmosis) · pl osmotyczny (of or relating to osmosis) · pt osmótico (of or relating to osmosis) · hu ozmotikus (of or relating to osmosis) · fi osmoottinen (of or relating to osmosis) · ar أُسْمُوزِيَّة (of or relating to osmosis) · ga osmóiseach (of or relating to osmosis) · cmn 滲透的 /渗透的 (of or relating to osmosis) · fr osmotique (of or relating to osmosis) · ar أُسْمُوزِيّ (of or relating to osmosis) · el ωσμωτικός (of or relating to osmosis) · it osmotico (of or relating to osmosis) · ca osmòtic (of or relating to osmosis) · es osmótico (of or relating to osmosis) · gl osmótico (of or relating to osmosis)