Usually means: Movement of water through membrane.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. osmosis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. osmosis: Merriam-Webster
  3. osmosis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. osmosis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. osmosis: Collins English Dictionary
  6. osmosis: Vocabulary.com
  7. Osmosis, osmosis: Wordnik
  8. osmosis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. osmosis: Wiktionary
  10. osmosis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. osmosis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. osmosis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. osmosis: Dictionary.com
  14. osmosis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. osmosis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Osmosis (TV series), Osmosis (disambiguation), Osmosis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Osmosis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. osmosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. osmosis: Rhymezone
  20. osmosis, osmosis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. osmosis: FreeDictionary.org
  22. osmosis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. osmosis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. osmosis: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. osmosis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. osmosis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Osmosis: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. osmosis: Medical dictionary
  7. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. OSMOSIS: Acronym Finder

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Osmosis: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  5. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. osmosis: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. OSMOSIS: Power Engineering
  5. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (chemistry) The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane.
noun:  (figurative) Passive absorption or impartation of information, habits, etc.; the act of teaching or picking up particular knowledge incidentally, without actually seeking it.

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