Usually means: Particles dispersed throughout another substance.
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  1. colloids: Merriam-Webster
  2. colloids: Collins English Dictionary
  3. colloids: Vocabulary.com
  4. Colloids, colloids: Wordnik
  5. colloids: Wiktionary
  6. colloids: Dictionary.com
  7. Colloids: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Colloids: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Colloids: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. colloids: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Colloids: Medical dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. COLLOIDS: Power Engineering
  4. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See colloid as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (colloid)

adjective:  Glue-like; gelatinous.
noun:  (physical chemistry) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.
noun:  (meteorology) An intimate mixture of two substances, one of which, called the dispersed phase (or colloid), is uniformly distributed in a finely divided state throughout the second substance, called the dispersion medium (or dispersing medium).
noun:  (geology) A particle less than 1 micron in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
▸ Also see colloid


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