transitive verb
intransitive verb
-·mosed·, -·mos·ing to subject to, or undergo, osmosis
Origin of osmose
back-formation from osmosisosmose
os·mose
verb
Osmose is defined as to pass by as if through osmosis, when molecules move from a less concentrated side pass through a semi permeable membrane into a more concentrated side until the concentration is even.
When molecules go through the process of osmosis, this is an example of a situation where they osmose.
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intr. & tr.v.
os·mosed, os·mos·ing, os·mos·esTo diffuse or cause to diffuse by osmosis.
Origin of osmose
Back-formation from osmosisTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present osmoses, present participle osmosing, simple past and past participle osmosed)
- (intransitive) To diffuse by osmosis.
- To cause to diffuse by osmosis.
Anagrams
- mooses
Origin
Back-formation from osmosis.
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