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Transport vs Electrokinesis - What's the difference?

transport | electrokinesis |

As nouns the difference between transport and electrokinesis

is that transport is transport, transportation while electrokinesis is (physics) the transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.

transport

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
  • to transport''' goods; to '''transport troops
  • (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  • (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
  • Music transports the soul.
  • * Milton
  • [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
  • * South
  • We shall then be transported with a nobler wonder.

    Synonyms

    * (carry or bear from one place to another) convey, ferry, move, relocate, shift, ship * banish, deport, exile, expatriate, extradite * (move someone to strong emotion) carry away, enrapture

    Noun

    (wikipedia transport)
  • An act of transporting; conveyance.
  • The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  • A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
  • (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
  • The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
  • A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  • (historical) A deported convict.
  • Synonyms

    * (act of transporting) conveyance, ferrying, moving, relocation, shifting, shipping * (state of being transported by emotion) rapture * * * (system of transporting people) See public transport * (device that moves recording tape across the heads of a recorder) * deportee, exile, expatriate

    Derived terms

    * means of transport English heteronyms ----

    electrokinesis

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (physics) The transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2008, Nunes da Rocha et al., Mobilisation of bacteria in a fine-grained residual soil by electrophoresis, doi=10.1016/j.jhazmat.2008.04.022, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • , passage=These results demonstrate that electrokinesis can be used for bacteria transport in soils with low hydraulic conductivity, even against the electro-osmotic flow.}}
  • (fantasy, science fiction) The generation of electrical force using the mind alone.
  • *{{quote-book, 2008, A. Lee Martinez, The Automatic Detective citation
  • , passage=But Grey's electrokinesis and Greenman's telekinesis put me in a tight spot.}}

    Synonyms

    *(transport of particles or fluid) electrokinetics, electrohydrodynamics