Osmosis



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 渗透; 潜移默化
• ［英］ n. 渗透 ( the diffusion of fluids through a membrane or porous partition)
• ［记］ osm ( 渗透) +osis -> 渗透
• ［例］ education by osmosis ( 潜移默化的教育)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: New Latin, short for endosmosis
• Date: 1867
• 1. movement of a solvent (as water) through a semipermeable membrane (as of a living cell) into a solution of higher solute concentration that tends to equalize the concentrations of solute on the two sides of the membrane
• 2. a process of absorption or diffusion suggestive of the flow of osmotic action; especially a usually effortless often unconscious assimilation <learned a number of languages by osmosis — Roger Kimball>

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