Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tiny drop.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A little drop.
Wiktionary
- n. A very small drop.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A little drop; a tear.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tiny drop
Etymologies
- From drop + -let. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the first stage of condensation a droplet is always formed round a nucleus.”
“Melanie Little on The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg: Rather than strangle the meaning from her anecdotes and examples the way my grandmother could wring every last droplet from a washcloth,”
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“It's what's called droplet spread -- they are large particles in the air.”
“ForkLift integrates a full featured batch rename tool, an application deleter and a small code called droplet, which enables you to create automated upload shortcuts for your most used remote folders, and place them anywhere in your file system.”
“ForkLift 1.1 integrates a full featured batch rename tool, an application deleter and a small code called droplet, which enables you to create automated upload shortcuts for your most used remote folders, and place them anywhere in your file system.”
“he droplet, which is about 1mm 10 million times larger than an atom, is also one million times larger than the second largest object--a 2-nm molecule called a buckyball--whose wave-particle duality was observed in 2003.”
“When the opening time is short, the result is a paint droplet which is ejected in the direction of the paint application surface in accordance with the pressure which is present in pressure reservoir”
“For this, he is using newer "droplet" technology, where droplets on nano-structured surfaces can be manipulated using a control pad - the current prototype in the Biosensors Lab is attached to a Nintendo gaming pad.”
“Touch interface - "droplet" visible when touching; mouse cursor disappears (nor relevant); gestures for things like context menus”
“Designed for applications such as droplet generation, reagent dispensing, cell manipulation, microreactions and any application where precise control over fluid flow is required, the Mitos Syringe Pump XS removes pulsation through advanced drive electronics to provide an exceptionally smooth flow.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘droplet’.
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Written on Water
An eclectic list of words pertaining to and describing water.
"...I am the faithful husband of the rain,
I love the water of wells and springs
and the taste of roofs in the...water, rain, cistern, thirst, dead-water, eddy-water, surge, flood, ebb, fluid, flow, liquor amnii and 202 more...
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Letterrorists
A bunch of -let words, emphasis on the diminutive. Feel free to neologize.
booklet, flatlet, haslet, nutlet, platelet, streamlet, varlet, aglet, gablet, leaflet, piglet, ringlet and 504 more...
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vivids's list
picturesque, lovelight, twinkle, agleam, droplet, sunlight, shimmer, epitome, shard, mist, starlight, rain and 23 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Noodle, Nugget, Butter, Soft, Snug, Feather, Socks, Knit, Mug, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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Bianca's Words
perfidious, vituperate, ribald, macabre, lament, eloquence, poignant, adage, finesse, vespertine, oxymoron, aesthetic and 117 more...
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lilliput
ladybug, papermite, silverfish, mote, miniscule, micro, protozoa, fragment, ion, proton, neutrino, neutron and 18 more...
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Kauniit Sanat
Beautiful Words
droplet, requiem, shards, sunkissed, emblaze, radiance, volatile, starlight, flare, illumination, fabricate, forge and 3 more...
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lovely words
talon, flightless, feathered, coral, innocence, breathing, golden, scent, crinkle, colors, flushed, seamist and 57 more...
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pretty words
halcyon, zephyr, starlight, celestial, mist, haven, epitome, solitude, empathy, shards, horizon, firmament and 15 more...
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D
dew, driftwood, dusty, doxy, droplet, doe, dimday, dwell, damsel, delicate, dapple, darling and 42 more...
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pretty words
adore, brood, bungalow, celestial, cerulean, charm, cinnamon, dear, demure, dew, droplet, enchanting and 54 more...
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enchanting words
serendipity, enchantment/encha..., mystical, mist, glowing, celestial, galaxy, glorious, lucid, silhouette, illumination, droplet and 12 more...
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