osmose
/'ɒzmәus/
📖 中文释义
- v. (使)渗透
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused,
- when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing
- densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening
- porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker
- fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current,
- exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be
- regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion.
- n. The action produced by this tendency.