Word Meanings - EXOSMOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.

Related words: (words related to EXOSMOSE)

• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• PHENOMENALISM
  That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• MEDIATRESS; MEDIATRIX
  A female mediator.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• PHENOMENAL
  Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory. -- Phe*nom"e*nal*ly, adv.
• MEDIALUNA
  See HALF-MOON
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• MEDIA
  pl. of Medium.
• ENDOSMOSE; ENDOSMOSIS
  The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• MEDIAN
  Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts. Median line. Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which
• MEDIAEVALIST
  One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages.
• MEDIAEVALS
  The people who lived in the Middle Ages. Ruskin.
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• MEDIATIZATION
  The act of mediatizing.
• MEDIANT
  The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
• PASSAGEWAY
  A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
• WITHIN
  with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
• REMEDIABLE
  Capable of being remedied or cured. -- Re*me"di*a*ble*ness, n. -Re*me"di*a*bly, adv.
• POLYSPOROUS
  Containing many spores.
• SUPERMEDIAL
  Above the middle.
• IMMEDIACY
  The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. Shak.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• INTERMEDIATOR
  A mediator.
• IMMEDIATISM
  Immediateness.
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• INTERMEDIAN
  Intermediate.