Sunday, 23 December 2012

Osmosis=الأزموزية


Osmosis=الأزموزية

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY

osmosis (n.)
1867, Latinized from osmose (1854), shortened from endosmosis (1830s), from endosmose "inward passage of a fluid through a porous septum" (1829), from Fr. endo- "inward" + Gk. osmos "a thrusting, a pushing," from stem of othein "to push, to thrust," from PIE *wedhe- "to push, strike" (cf. Skt. vadhati "pushes, strikes, destroys," Avestan vadaya- "to repulse"). Figurative sense is from 1900. Related: Osmotic (1854, from earlier endosmotic).

SEE http://www.memidex.com/osmosis#etymology

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