colloid
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek κόλλᾰ (kóllă)der. Vulgar Latin colla French colle Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)der. French -oïde French colloïde English colloid From French colloïde, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) + -oid.
Definitions
Glue-like
Glue-like; gelatinous.
- colloid tumours
A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very…
A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.
An intimate mixture of two substances, one of which, called the dispersed phase (or…
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).
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A particle less than 1 micron in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
The neighborhood
- antonymnoncolloid
- antonymsolution
- neighborcolloidochemical
- neighborcolloidosome
- neighborcollodion
- neighbordispersion
- neighborsuspension
- neighboraerogel
- neighboraerosol
- neighborbiocolloid
- neighboremulsion
- neighboremulsoid
- neighboreucolloid
- neighborfoam
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for colloid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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