Droplet
noun
A tiny drop of liquid.
A droplet of water fell from the leaf.
Often appears as...
- a droplet of water
- a droplet of blood
noun
A small quantity of a particular liquid, especially one that is medicated or poisonous.
She administered a droplet of the medication onto her tongue.
Often appears as...
- a droplet of medication
- a droplet of poison
noun
A tiny amount of data or information.
The server had to handle thousands of droplets of data from the users.
Often appears as...
- a droplet of data
- a droplet of information
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Technical
noun
A tiny drop of liquid.
A droplet of water fell from the leaf.
Often appears as...
- a droplet of water
- a droplet of blood
noun
A small quantity of a particular liquid, especially one that is medicated or poisonous.
She administered a droplet of the medication onto her tongue.
Often appears as...
- a droplet of medication
- a droplet of poison
noun
A tiny amount of data or information.
The server had to handle thousands of droplets of data from the users.
Often appears as...
- a droplet of data
- a droplet of information
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Envision a small, visible liquid bubble to grasp the size and shape.
A single droplet glistened on the petal.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Presence
Despite its size, a droplet can create visible impact, like a stain.
A droplet of oil spread on the surface.
Pro Tip 3/3Descriptive Use
Use 'droplet' to add detail and precision to narratives and descriptions.
Droplets of dew adorned the spider's web.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Envision a small, visible liquid bubble to grasp the size and shape.
A single droplet glistened on the petal.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Presence
Despite its size, a droplet can create visible impact, like a stain.
A droplet of oil spread on the surface.
Pro Tip 3/3Descriptive Use
Use 'droplet' to add detail and precision to narratives and descriptions.
Droplets of dew adorned the spider's web.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Envision a small, visible liquid bubble to grasp the size and shape.
A single droplet glistened on the petal.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Presence
Despite its size, a droplet can create visible impact, like a stain.
A droplet of oil spread on the surface.
Pro Tip 3/3Descriptive Use
Use 'droplet' to add detail and precision to narratives and descriptions.
Droplets of dew adorned the spider's web.
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Martin Hanczyc: The line...
morphologically and functionally, to the membranes in your body, and we can use these, as they say, to form the body of our protocell. Likewise, we can work with oil and water systems. As you know, when you put oil and water together, they don't mix, but through self-assembly we can get a nice oil droplet to form,
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Saul Griffith: Hardware...
Not just where you attach a micro-controller to the end point, but that the structure and the mechanisms are the logic, are the computers. Having totally absorbed this philosophy, I started looking at a lot of problems a little differently. With the universe as a computer, you can look at this droplet of water
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Ross Lovegrove: The...
That is an image of a car for me. That's the car of the future. It's a water droplet. I've been banging on about this like I can't believe. Cars are all wrong. I'm going to show you something a bit weird now. They laughed everywhere over the world I showed this. The only place that didn't laugh was Moscow.
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Can clouds buy us more...
we'd need to track the behavior of every water droplet and dust grain in the entire atmosphere, and there's no computer powerful enough to do that. So instead, we have to make a we can zoom in and get the details right, but have no idea what's going on worldwide;
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Hyper Hurricanes PIPE...
the composition of lighter and heavier isotopes in hurricane rainfall differs from normal precipitation a hurricane relies repeated condensation for energy water vapor rises condenses and forms a cloud drop this droplet falls as rain
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Nnedi Okorafor: Sci-fi...
I powered up the transporter and said a silent prayer. I had no idea what I was going to do if it didn't work. My transporter was cheap, so even a droplet of moisture or, more likely, a grain of sand, would cause it to short.
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Cloudy climate change:...
or bathe distant mountains in a blue haze. More importantly, a cloud droplet cannot form without an aerosol particle seed. So without aerosol particles, there'd be no clouds, and without clouds, there'd be no fresh water.
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Computing with fluids PIPE...
magnetic field one rotation of a clock is one o'clock you apply a little bit of a bias feel to it that allows you to actually magnetize the fluid droplet itself now you realize that you can make
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Top 5 Animal Superpowers!...
from a droplet of urine left by another rat Mandy can determine its gender sexual maturity and reproductive status now that's one test we won't be trying on bono to help her in her quest she's
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How to Stop Banks from...
and it's still a green droplet in the ocean of pollution. I started to campaign to protect the environment and human rights when I was at university,
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Martin Hanczyc: The line...
morphologically and functionally, to the membranes in your body, and we can use these, as they say, to form the body of our protocell. Likewise, we can work with oil and water systems. As you know, when you put oil and water together, they don't mix, but through self-assembly we can get a nice oil droplet to form,
Video examples
Saul Griffith: Hardware...
Not just where you attach a micro-controller to the end point, but that the structure and the mechanisms are the logic, are the computers. Having totally absorbed this philosophy, I started looking at a lot of problems a little differently. With the universe as a computer, you can look at this droplet of water
Video examples
Ross Lovegrove: The...
That is an image of a car for me. That's the car of the future. It's a water droplet. I've been banging on about this like I can't believe. Cars are all wrong. I'm going to show you something a bit weird now. They laughed everywhere over the world I showed this. The only place that didn't laugh was Moscow.
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Can clouds buy us more...
we'd need to track the behavior of every water droplet and dust grain in the entire atmosphere, and there's no computer powerful enough to do that. So instead, we have to make a we can zoom in and get the details right, but have no idea what's going on worldwide;
Video examples
Hyper Hurricanes PIPE...
the composition of lighter and heavier isotopes in hurricane rainfall differs from normal precipitation a hurricane relies repeated condensation for energy water vapor rises condenses and forms a cloud drop this droplet falls as rain
Video examples
Nnedi Okorafor: Sci-fi...
I powered up the transporter and said a silent prayer. I had no idea what I was going to do if it didn't work. My transporter was cheap, so even a droplet of moisture or, more likely, a grain of sand, would cause it to short.
Video examples
Cloudy climate change:...
or bathe distant mountains in a blue haze. More importantly, a cloud droplet cannot form without an aerosol particle seed. So without aerosol particles, there'd be no clouds, and without clouds, there'd be no fresh water.
Video examples
Computing with fluids PIPE...
magnetic field one rotation of a clock is one o'clock you apply a little bit of a bias feel to it that allows you to actually magnetize the fluid droplet itself now you realize that you can make
Video examples
Top 5 Animal Superpowers!...
from a droplet of urine left by another rat Mandy can determine its gender sexual maturity and reproductive status now that's one test we won't be trying on bono to help her in her quest she's
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How to Stop Banks from...
and it's still a green droplet in the ocean of pollution. I started to campaign to protect the environment and human rights when I was at university,
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Hannah Fry
English Mathematician
It's true that you can't take an individual rain droplet and say where it's come from or where it's going to end up. But you can say with pretty good certainty whether it will be cloudy tomorrow.
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Clifton Fadiman
American Writer
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Quote examples
Hannah Fry
English Mathematician
It's true that you can't take an individual rain droplet and say where it's come from or where it's going to end up. But you can say with pretty good certainty whether it will be cloudy tomorrow.
Quote examples
Clifton Fadiman
American Writer
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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