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What (who) is osmosis - definition
osmosis
n. by osmosis (to absorb by osmosis)
osmosis
[?z'm??s?s]
¦ noun
1. Biology & Chemistry a process by which solvent molecules pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.
2. the process of gradual or unconscious assimilation of ideas or knowledge.
Derivatives
osmotic adjective
osmotically adverb
Origin
C19: Latinized form of earlier osmose, from Gk osmos 'a push'.
Osmosis
·noun Osmose.
Wikipedia
Osmosis
Osmosis (, ) is the spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively-permeable membrane from a region of high water potential (region of lower solute concentration) to a region of low water potential (region of higher solute concentration), in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides.Osmosis, Encyclopædia Britannica on-line It may also be used to describe a physical process in which any solvent moves across a selectively permeable membrane (permeable to the solvent, but not the solute) separating two solutions of different concentrations.
Examples of use of osmosis
1. I‘ve inhaled the Stones myth and apparel almost by osmosis.
2. Reverse osmosis costs more than traditional water treatment.
3. "Incredible." He says his fervour for war poetry came about almost by osmosis.
4. They learn by osmosis when Eltayeh lapses into her native tongue.
5. They seemed to have absorbed that British sense of restraint by osmosis.