Osmosis vs Tonicity - What's the difference?
osmosis | tonicity |
The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of high solvent potential to a region of lower solvent potential through a partially permeable membrane
(slang) Picking up knowledge accidentally, without actually seeking that particular knowledge.
* 1999 , Neil Gaiman, Stardust , pages 36-37 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
(medicine) The normal presence of tone or tension in a muscle or organ; tonus
(sciences) The ability of a solution to exert an osmotic pressure upon a membrane
As nouns the difference between osmosis and tonicity
is that osmosis is the net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of high solvent potential to a region of lower solvent potential through a partially permeable membrane while tonicity is the normal presence of tone or tension in a muscle or organ; tonus.osmosis
English
(wikipedia osmosis)Noun
(osmoses)- I was reading about chickens, and I guess I learned about hawks through osmosis .
- At age fourteen, by a process of osmosis , of dirty jokes, whispered secrets and filthy ballads, Tristram learned of sex.