Usually means: Movement of water through membrane.
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  1. osmosis: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. osmosis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. osmosis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. osmosis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. osmosis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Osmosis, osmosis: Wordnik
  7. osmosis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. osmosis: Wiktionary
  9. osmosis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. osmosis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. osmosis: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. osmosis: Dictionary.com
  13. osmosis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. osmosis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Osmosis (TV series), Osmosis (disambiguation), Osmosis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Osmosis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. osmosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. osmosis: Rhymezone
  19. osmosis, osmosis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. osmosis: Free Dictionary
  21. osmosis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. osmosis: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
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Business (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. osmosis: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. osmosis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Osmosis: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
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  6. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. OSMOSIS: Acronym Finder

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Osmosis: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. osmosis: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. OSMOSIS: Power Engineering
  5. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (chemistry) The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane.
noun:  (figurative) Passive absorption or impartation of information, habits, etc.; the act of teaching or picking up knowledge incidentally, without actually seeking that particular knowledge.

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