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   osmosis

   /ɒzˈməʊsɪs/

   noun

   • 1. a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.
   • 2. the process of gradual or unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc.: "by some strange political osmosis, private reputations became public"

   Word Origin mid 19th century: Latinized form of earlier osmose, from Greek ōsmos ‘a push’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. osmotic adjective
   • 2. osmotically adverb

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