| Library / English Dictionary |
DROPLET
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tiny drop
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("droplet" is a kind of...):
drib; driblet; drop (a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid))
Derivation:
drop (a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid))
drop (a shape that is spherical and small)
Context examples:
“I could see them sipping on the droplets oozing from the mycelium,” he said.
(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A sterile solution containing a particular pharmaceutical agent administered to the external eye, usually in the form of droplets.
(Ophthalmic Solution, NCI Thesaurus)
"With sophisticated computer models, we can understand what happens with every single water molecule in a very, very small droplet."
(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)
PM is the term for a mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air, and PM2.5 refers to fine inhalable particles, with diameters that are generally 2.5 micrometers or smaller.
(Pregnancy hypertension risk increased by traffic-related air pollution, National Institutes of Health)
But if you have a little particle already there, it's easy for water to condense on it and grow into a droplet, which enables the formation of cloud droplets.
(Estimating how pollen particles in the atmosphere influence climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Apocrine glands in the breast secrete fat droplets into breast milk and those in the ear help form earwax.
(Apocrine gland, NCI Dictionary)
An adenoma of the adrenal cortex composed of neoplastic clear cells containing intracytoplasmic lipid droplets.
(Adrenal Cortex Clear Cell Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Histologically it is characterized by a biphasic pattern with compacted bipolar cells associated with Rosenthal fibers and multipolar cells associated with microcysts and eosinophilic bodies/hyaline droplets.
(Pilocytic Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
Brown-colored adipose tissue that contains numerous small droplets of lipids and high numbers of mitochondria as its primary function is to generate body heat.
(Brown Adipose Tissue, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A semi-solid composed of at least two immiscible liquids, one of which is dispersed as droplets within the other liquid, and stabilized with one or more emulsifying agents.
(Emulsion Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
