REVERSE OSMOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reverse osmosis mean? 

• REVERSE OSMOSIS (noun)
  The noun REVERSE OSMOSIS has 1 sense:

1. (chemistry) a method of producing pure water; a solvent passes through a semipermeable membrane in a direction opposite to that for natural osmosis when it is subjected to a hydrostatic pressure greater than the osmotic pressure

  Familiarity information: REVERSE OSMOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVERSE OSMOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) a method of producing pure water; a solvent passes through a semipermeable membrane in a direction opposite to that for natural osmosis when it is subjected to a hydrostatic pressure greater than the osmotic pressure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("reverse osmosis" is a kind of...):

osmosis ((biology, chemistry) diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower concentration until the concentration on both sides is equal)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

 Context examples 

The type of drinking water that is planned to be provided to the subjects in a set (e.g., tap water, acidified, reverse osmosis, etc.).

(Drinking Water, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

While the researchers acknowledge that implementing this process in conventional reverse osmosis systems is taxing, they propose a spiral-wound module system, similar to a roll of towels.

(Novel Technology Uses Bacteria for Cleaning Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)