Usually means: Selective barrier regulating molecular passage.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. membrane: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. membrane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. membrane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. membrane: Collins English Dictionary
  5. membrane: Vocabulary.com
  6. Membrane, membrane: Wordnik
  7. membrane: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. membrane: Wiktionary
  9. membrane: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. membrane: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. membrane: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. membrane: Dictionary.com
  13. membrane: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. membrane: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Membrane (M-Theory), Membrane (M-theory), Membrane (disambiguation), Membrane (selective barrier), Membrane: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Membrane: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. membrane: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. membrane: Rhymezone
  19. Membrane: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. membrane: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. membrane: Free Dictionary
  22. membrane: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. membrane: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. membrane: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Membrane: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. membrane: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Membrane: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Membrane(s): Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Membrane: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. membrane: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  10. Membrane: Scleroderma
  11. Kidney Patient Guide Glossary (No longer online)
  12. membrane: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  14. membrane: Medical dictionary
  15. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  16. Membrane: Drug Medical Dictionary
  17. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  4. membrane: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. membrane: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  3. Membrane: Beauty & Health Glossary
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. MEMBRANE: Power Engineering

(Note: See membraned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy, zootomy) A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments.
noun:  A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.
noun:  A flexible or semiflexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.
noun:  (biology) A microscopic double layer of lipids and proteins forming the boundary of cells or organelles.
noun:  A piece of parchment forming part of a roll.

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