单词 | diffusible |
释义 | diffusibleadj. Science. That can be diffused; able to intermingle by diffusion. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [adjective] > spread or diffused > able to be diffusible1743 spready1908 1743 T. Lobb in Lett. relating to Plague (1745) i. i. 6 Pestilential Particles are exceedingly minute, volatile, diffusible. 1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 151 The moveable or diffusible heat in bodies, by which we are made to feel. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 425 It is not diffusible in cold water. 1864 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. 19 Hydrochloric acid is seven times as diffusible as sulphate of magnesia. 1914 Jrnl. Pharmacol. & Exper. Therapeutics Jan. 276 It allows the escape of the diffusible constituents of the blood. 1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. xv. 472/2 The outer segments..were infiltrated with procion yellow, a highly diffusible fluorescent dye. 2009 W. G. Hopkins & N. P. A. Hüner Introd. Plant Physiol. (ed. 4) iv. 70/1 Because it is highly mobile, potassium also serves to balance the charge of both diffusible and nondiffusible anions. Derivatives diˈffusibleness n. now rare the property of being diffusible; diffusibility. ΚΠ 1846 C. Fleming & J. Tibbins Royal Dict. Eng. & French 338/1 Diffusibleness, diffusibility. 1865 C. H. Moore Antecedents Cancer 52 Its subsequent general influence in the body is as pernicious, as that of oxygen, which it resembles in its diffusibleness, is good. 1898 Dominion Med. Monthly Feb. 70/2 This sacred adage has never been more forcibly illustrated than in the diffusibleness of a poison germ. 1978 Key to Econ. Sci. & Managerial Sci. 25 3 Diffusibleness of the Chinese model. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1743 |
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