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osmotic pressure
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun osmotic pressure has 1 sense
- osmotic pressure(n = noun.phenomenon) - (physical chemistry) the pressure exerted by a solution necessary to prevent osmosis into that solution when it is separated from the pure solvent by a semipermeable membrane; is a kind of force per unit area, pressure, pressure level
has particulars: hypertonicity, hypotonicity
CIDE DICTIONARY
osmotic pressure, n.
The pressure which a solution of a substance in a liquid exerts on a semipermeable membrane, through which the solvent can diffuse but the dissolved substance (the solute) cannot diffuse, when separated across the membrane from the pure solvent. In general, the osmotic pressure will depend almost proportionally up to certain concentrations upon the molal concentration of the solute. [PJC]
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