osmoticallyadv.
/ɒzˈmɒtᵻkli/, U.S. /ɑzˈmɑdək(ə)li/ By osmotic action; by the process of osmosis; as regards osmosis. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [adverb] > through > osmotically
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society > education > learning > [adverb] > assimilating ideas
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > assimilation or absorption > [adverb]
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1873 Harper's Mag. Dec. 145/2 He regards as the chief objection to its general use its unpleasant effect on the organs of respiration, and states that this can be remedied..by enveloping it [sc. chloride of lime] in a bag of parchment paper, which acts osmotically, and is decomposed slowly by it.
1882 A. S. Wilson in Gardeners' Chron. 17 671 That it may find its way osmotically through the cell-walls of the roots.
1906 Amer. Naturalist 40 435 So far as we know the resistance to the passage of water is very slight and plays no great part in the determination of pressure in osmotically active cells.
1956 R. E. Morrow Northern Methodism & Reconstruction vi. 174 Some freedmen.., upon the discovery that the intellect did not grow osmotically, departed with the shot, ‘I ain't learnin' nuffin' 'tall.’
1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 1437/5 A reminder of how much royal legend is osmotically absorbed by even the most reluctant reader of royal biography.
1995 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 82 1507/2 Differential K+ flux between extensor and flexor regions is..osmotically adjusted by influx or efflux of water.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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