Usually means: Mixture of two immiscible liquids.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. emulsion: Merriam-Webster
  2. emulsion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emulsion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emulsion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emulsion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Emulsion, emulsion: Wordnik
  7. emulsion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. emulsion: Wiktionary
  9. emulsion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emulsion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. emulsion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. emulsion: Dictionary.com
  13. emulsion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Emulsion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Emulsion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. emulsion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. emulsion: Rhymezone
  18. Emulsion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. emulsion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. emulsion: FreeDictionary.org
  21. emulsion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. emulsion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. emulsion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. emulsion: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Emulsion: Health & Beauty Glossary
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  4. EMULSION: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. emulsion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emulsion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. emulsion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. emulsion: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

Tech (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  5. Explosives (No longer online)
  6. Emulsion: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  7. Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)
  8. Emulsion: Beauty & Health Glossary
  9. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  11. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  12. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  13. Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker (No longer online)
  14. emulsion: Television: Critical Methods and Applications
  15. EMULSION: Power Engineering

(Note: See emulsioning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.
noun:  (physical chemistry) A colloid in which both phases are liquid.
noun:  (photography) The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.
verb:  (transitive) To paint with emulsion paint.

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