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PASSIVE TRANSPORT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does passive transport mean?
• PASSIVE TRANSPORT (noun)
The noun PASSIVE TRANSPORT has 1 sense:
1. transport of a substance across a cell membrane by diffusion; expenditure of energy is not required
Familiarity information: PASSIVE TRANSPORT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Transport of a substance across a cell membrane by diffusion; expenditure of energy is not required
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("passive transport" is a kind of...):
transport (an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes)
Context examples
They are involved in active, facilitated and passive transport of molecules in and out of the cell nucleus.
(Nucleoporin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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