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Definition of Semipermeable
1. Adjective. (of a membrane) selectively permeable.
Definition of Semipermeable
1. Adjective. Describing something that is permeable to some things and not to others, as a cell membrane which allows some molecules through but blocks others substances. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Semipermeable
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Semipermeable
1. Freely permeable to water (or other solvent) but relatively impermeable to solutes. Depending on the context, it has been used to imply impermeability to all solutes except very small uncharged molecules (e.g., a cell membrane), or merely impermeability to very large molecules such as proteins (e.g., a capillary membrane). (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semipermeable
Literary usage of Semipermeable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Era in Chemistry: Some of the More Important Developments in General by Harry Clary Jones (1913)
"The water will pass into the bladder; the alcohol cannot pass out since the walls
of the bladder are semipermeable, ie, will allow water to pass through but ..."
2. A New Era in Chemistry: Some of the More Important Developments in General by Harry Clary Jones (1913)
"If we were limited to the use of natural semipermeable membranes, this would be
absolutely impossible. The force for any appreciable concentration, is, ..."
3. Laboratory Methods of Inorganic Chemistry by Heinrich Biltz, Wilhelm Biltz (1909)
"Hydrogels as semipermeable Membranes. The separation of colloids and electrolytes
... By means of membranes of such semipermeable material a solute can be ..."
4. Laboratory Methods of Inorganic Chemistry by Heinrich Biltz, Wilhelm Biltz (1909)
"By means of membranes of such semipermeable material a solute can be ...
Cupric ferrocyanide has been found especially suitable as a semipermeable colloid. ..."
5. Elements of Electro-chemistry: Treated Experimentally by Robert Theodor Wilhelm Lüpke (1903)
"Perfectly semipermeable membranes are known, but they are few in number. If the
epidermal cells from the underside of the mid-rib of a leaf ..."
6. The Elements of Electro-chemistry Treated Experimentally by Robert Theodor Wilhelm Lüpke (1897)
"Perfectly semipermeable membranes are known, but they are few in number. If the
epidermal cells from the underside of the mid-rib of a leaf of Tradescantia ..."
7. Use of Sediment Quality Guidelines and Related Tools for the Assessment of by Richard J. Wenning (2005)
"... between TBP and Ct. What Other Methods are Available for Assessing Contaminant
Bioavailability? semipermeable membrane devices and solid-phase ..."
8. The Elements of Electro-chemistry Treated Experimentally by Robert Theodor Wilhelm Lüpke (1897)
"... be detected in the water wherein the cylinder 1 for some hours in the experiment
that has just been bed* Perfectly semipermeable membranes are known, ..."
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