Osmosis
noun
A process where molecules of a solvent go through a semi-permeable membrane, from a less concentrated solution to a more concentrated one.
Osmosis is a vital process for the survival of living organisms.
Often appears as...
- osmosis in cells
- process of osmosis
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Academic
noun
A gradual or unconscious process of assimilation or learning.
Because he grew up in a family of artists, he understood artistic concepts almost by osmosis.
Often appears as...
- learning by osmosis
- osmosis of knowledge
noun
A process where molecules of a solvent go through a semi-permeable membrane, from a less concentrated solution to a more concentrated one.
Osmosis is a vital process for the survival of living organisms.
Often appears as...
- osmosis in cells
- process of osmosis
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A gradual or unconscious process of assimilation or learning.
Because he grew up in a family of artists, he understood artistic concepts almost by osmosis.
Often appears as...
- learning by osmosis
- osmosis of knowledge
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Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Use
Used mostly in biology and chemistry to describe a physical process.
In biology class, we studied how osmosis is essential for kidney function.
Pro Tip 2/3Membrane Requirement
Osmosis always involves a membrane that only lets certain things pass through.
Osmosis through the cell membrane helps maintain the cell's internal balance.
Pro Tip 3/3Concentration Gradient
Understand that osmosis describes movement from less to more concentrated areas.
Saltwater fish have adapted to osmosis in an environment with high salt concentration.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Use
Used mostly in biology and chemistry to describe a physical process.
In biology class, we studied how osmosis is essential for kidney function.
Pro Tip 2/3Membrane Requirement
Osmosis always involves a membrane that only lets certain things pass through.
Osmosis through the cell membrane helps maintain the cell's internal balance.
Pro Tip 3/3Concentration Gradient
Understand that osmosis describes movement from less to more concentrated areas.
Saltwater fish have adapted to osmosis in an environment with high salt concentration.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Use
Used mostly in biology and chemistry to describe a physical process.
In biology class, we studied how osmosis is essential for kidney function.
Pro Tip 2/3Membrane Requirement
Osmosis always involves a membrane that only lets certain things pass through.
Osmosis through the cell membrane helps maintain the cell's internal balance.
Pro Tip 3/3Concentration Gradient
Understand that osmosis describes movement from less to more concentrated areas.
Saltwater fish have adapted to osmosis in an environment with high salt concentration.
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Sustainable Hockey Arena...
it's harder it so it makes for a better ice sheet I think the biggest difference is that when when we shovel the ice the snow comes back and it ends up down the drain we don't want to be putting anything down the drain that has chemicals in it so using a reverse osmosis system actually helps us help
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Damian Palin: Mining...
in the world today for people is inadequate access to clean drinking water. And the desalination process is one where we take out salts. We can use it for drinking and agriculture. Removing the salts from water -- particularly seawater -- through reverse osmosis is a critical technique
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Mining minerals from...
the world today for people is inadequate access to clean drinking water and the desalination process is one where we take out salts we can use it for drinking and agriculture but removing the salts from water in particularly sea water through reverse osmosis is a critical technique for
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4 ways we can avoid a...
that a much more cost-effective and practical way of recycling wastewater is to turn treated wastewater into drinking water through a two-step process. In the first step in this process we pressurize the water and pass it through a reverse osmosis a thin, permeable plastic membrane
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10 top time-saving tech...
For some reason, there's no standard syllabus, there's no basic course. They just sort of give you your computer and then kick you out of the nest. You're supposed to learn this stuff -- how? Just by osmosis. Nobody ever sits down and tells you, "This is how it works."
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How do we separate the...
One way to get around this problem is to remove salt from sea water with reverse osmosis, a process that separates water's ingredients by size. A membrane with pores bigger than water particles, but smaller than salt particles, only lets fresh water pass through,
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Why do we sweat? - John...
Then, because it's saltier inside the tube than outside, water moves into the tube by osmosis. As what's called the primary secretion builds up in the bottom of the tube, water pressure pushes it up into the long straight part of the duct.
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Biomimicry in action PIPE...
Nature does something much more elegant. And it's in every cell. Every red blood cell of your body right now has these hourglass-shaped pores called aquaporins. They actually export water molecules through. It's kind of a forward osmosis.
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Richard Seymour: How...
Then I found out, post exposure, that this plastic bag if I put it into a filthy puddle or a stream filled with coliforms and all sorts of disgusting stuff, that that filthy water will migrate through the wall of the bag by osmosis
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Leg 5: Marty Raney PIPE...
on reverse osmosis water system that's right reverse osmosis
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Sustainable Hockey Arena...
it's harder it so it makes for a better ice sheet I think the biggest difference is that when when we shovel the ice the snow comes back and it ends up down the drain we don't want to be putting anything down the drain that has chemicals in it so using a reverse osmosis system actually helps us help
Video examples
Damian Palin: Mining...
in the world today for people is inadequate access to clean drinking water. And the desalination process is one where we take out salts. We can use it for drinking and agriculture. Removing the salts from water -- particularly seawater -- through reverse osmosis is a critical technique
Video examples
Mining minerals from...
the world today for people is inadequate access to clean drinking water and the desalination process is one where we take out salts we can use it for drinking and agriculture but removing the salts from water in particularly sea water through reverse osmosis is a critical technique for
Video examples
4 ways we can avoid a...
that a much more cost-effective and practical way of recycling wastewater is to turn treated wastewater into drinking water through a two-step process. In the first step in this process we pressurize the water and pass it through a reverse osmosis a thin, permeable plastic membrane
Video examples
10 top time-saving tech...
For some reason, there's no standard syllabus, there's no basic course. They just sort of give you your computer and then kick you out of the nest. You're supposed to learn this stuff -- how? Just by osmosis. Nobody ever sits down and tells you, "This is how it works."
Video examples
How do we separate the...
One way to get around this problem is to remove salt from sea water with reverse osmosis, a process that separates water's ingredients by size. A membrane with pores bigger than water particles, but smaller than salt particles, only lets fresh water pass through,
Video examples
Why do we sweat? - John...
Then, because it's saltier inside the tube than outside, water moves into the tube by osmosis. As what's called the primary secretion builds up in the bottom of the tube, water pressure pushes it up into the long straight part of the duct.
Video examples
Biomimicry in action PIPE...
Nature does something much more elegant. And it's in every cell. Every red blood cell of your body right now has these hourglass-shaped pores called aquaporins. They actually export water molecules through. It's kind of a forward osmosis.
Video examples
Richard Seymour: How...
Then I found out, post exposure, that this plastic bag if I put it into a filthy puddle or a stream filled with coliforms and all sorts of disgusting stuff, that that filthy water will migrate through the wall of the bag by osmosis
Video examples
Leg 5: Marty Raney PIPE...
on reverse osmosis water system that's right reverse osmosis
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Michael Leunig
Australian Cartoonist
I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.
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Raymond Loewy
American Designer
My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.
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Virginia Postrel
American Writer
America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.
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Hilary Mantel
English Writer
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.
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Alan Garner
English Novelist
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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Rhys Ifans
Welsh Actor
Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.
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Rachel Brosnahan
American Actress
I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.
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Theo James
English Actor
I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.
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Kurt Vile
American Musician
Influence is all osmosis.
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Michael Leunig
Australian Cartoonist
I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.
Quote examples
Raymond Loewy
American Designer
My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.
Quote examples
Virginia Postrel
American Writer
America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.
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Hilary Mantel
English Writer
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.
Quote examples
Alan Garner
English Novelist
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
Quote examples
Rhys Ifans
Welsh Actor
Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.
Quote examples
Rachel Brosnahan
American Actress
I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.
Quote examples
Theo James
English Actor
I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.
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Kurt Vile
American Musician
Influence is all osmosis.
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