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osmosis

noun as in absorption

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A reverse osmosis plant on an adjacent plot of land desalinates and purifies up to 1.25 million gallons of water daily.

And through basic cultural osmosis you learned its broad outlines: woman, travel, freeing of spirit, yoga.

Any winery that possesses a reverse-osmosis machine—usually used to remove alcohol from wine—can create their own concentrates.

In simple animals, as the sponge and hydra, no such organs are needed, the fluid food passing from cell to cell by osmosis.

No breathing organs are seen, because osmosis of oxygen and carbon dioxide may take place anywhere through the cell membrane.

The cell absorbs oxygen from the water by osmosis through its delicate membrane, giving up carbon dioxide in return.

Nourishment passes through them by a simple process of osmosis.

Non-osmosis of non-digested foods, comparison between osmosable qualities of starch and grape sugar.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to osmosis, such as: assimilation, diffusion, and passage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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