Usually means: Reduces surface tension between substances.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. surface-active: Merriam-Webster
  2. surface-active: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surface-active: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. surface-active, surface-active: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surface-active: Vocabulary.com
  6. surface-active: Wiktionary
  7. surface-active: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. surface-active: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. surface-active: Dictionary.com
  10. surface-active: Rhymezone
  11. surface-active: FreeDictionary.org
  12. surface-active: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. surface-active: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. surface-active: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. surface-active: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (surface-active)

▸ adjective:  capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid

Similar:
active, superantiwetting, sedimentable, antifoaming, dissolvent, whetted, emulsifying, detersive, microemulsifying, liquidogenous, more...

Opposite:
non-surfactant, non-foaming, non-wetting, non-emulsifying

Types:
amphipathic, amphiphilic, amphiphatic, more...

Phrases:
surface-active agent, surface-active agents, more...

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Similar:
active, superantiwetting, sedimentable, antifoaming, dissolvent, whetted, emulsifying, detersive, microemulsifying, liquidogenous, more...

Opposite:
non-surfactant, non-foaming, non-wetting, non-emulsifying

Types:
amphipathic, amphiphilic, amphiphatic, more...

Phrases:
surface-active agent, surface-active agents, more...



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