osmotic

See also: osmòtic

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɒzˈmɒtɪk/, /ɒsˈmɒtɪk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɑzˈmɑtɪk/, /ɑsˈmɑtɪk/
  • Rhymes: -ɒtɪk

Adjective

osmotic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to, or powered by, osmosis.
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 3:
      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.

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Etymology

Borrowed from French osmotique.

Adjective

osmotic m or n (feminine singular osmotică, masculine plural osmotici, feminine and neuter plural osmotice)

  1. osmotic

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