🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

渗透

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shèntòu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Osmosis/ɒzˈmoʊ.sɪs/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"水分通过渗透作用进入细胞。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.

    "Water enters plant roots through osmosis."

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'osmosis' originates from the Greek word 'ōsmos', meaning 'push' or 'thrust'. It was first used in the context of biology in the mid-19th century to describe the movement of solvent molecules through a semipermeable membrane.

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