🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Osmose

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Osmose

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Osmosis/ɒzˈmoʊ.sɪs/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Osmose ist ein wichtiger Prozess in der Biologie."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.

    "Water enters plant roots through osmosis."

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in 1854 by Scottish chemist Thomas Graham from the Greek 'osmos' meaning 'a pushing' or 'impulsion', combined with the suffix '-sis' denoting a process or condition.

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