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Definition of Colloid
1. Noun. A mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension.
Generic synonyms: Mixture
Examples of category: Dispersed Particles, Dispersed Phase, Dispersing Medium, Dispersing Phase, Dispersion Medium
Derivative terms: Colloidal
Definition of Colloid
1. a. Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.
2. n. A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid.
Definition of Colloid
1. Adjective. Glue-like. ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles. ¹
3. Noun. (meteorology) An intimate mixture of two substances one of which, called the dispersed phase (or '''colloid'''), is uniformly distributed in a finely divided state throughout the second substance, called the dispersion medium (or dispersing medium). The dispersion medium may be a gas, a liquid, or a solid, and the dispersed phase may also be any of these, with the exception that one does not speak of a colloidal system of one gas in another. A system of liquid or solid particles colloidally dispersed in a gas is called an aerosol. A system of solid substances or water-insoluble liquids colloidally dispersed in liquid water is called a hydrosol. ¹
4. Noun. (geology) A particle less than 1 micron in diameter, following the Wentworth scale ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colloid
1. a type of chemical suspension [n -S]
Medical Definition of Colloid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Colloid
Literary usage of Colloid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1865)
"IN the autumn of, feeling assured that, besides the known normal crystalloid
compounds found in urine, this secretion contained colloid substances, ..."
2. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"colloid METALS These occupy a peculiar position. colloid metals may be obtained
by establishing an electric arc between metallic wires under water; ..."
3. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"If a colloid cannot be brought back to its original soluble state it is irreversible
... A soluble colloid is one in which all the component particles carry ..."
4. A Practical treatise on the diseases of women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1872)
"For a long time the generally accepted opinion with reference to colloid (x»M<i,
... In speaking of ovarian colloid tumors Dr. Hewitt remarks: "The latter ..."
5. Physiological histology, methods and theory by Gustav Mann (1902)
"generated on the colloid-particles by the friction between the latter and the
... 37), and expand it, we would have to assume that colloid-particles receive ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"Phosphoric acid and potash may be prepared artificially in the colloid state ...
Plants form colloid material, although they may find some ready prepared, ..."
7. An introduction to pathology and morbid anatomy by Thomas Henry Green (1884)
"MUCOID AND colloid DEGENERATION. which are readily to be recognised by the naked
eye. As the colloid matter increases, and the cells are destroyed, ..."
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