Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cluster of droplets separated out of a lyophilic colloid.
- adjective Of or relating to a cluster of droplets.
- transitive verb To cause to form a coacervate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To heap up; pile.
- Heaped; piled up; collected into a crowd.
- noun In botany, densely crowded together; clustered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To heap up; to pile.
- adjective rare Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Clumped together,
clustered . - noun chemistry The
microsphere droplet that result fromcoacervation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Latin coacervātus, past participle of coacervāre, to heap together : co-, co- + acervāre, to heap (from acervus, a heap).]
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From Latin coacervātus.
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Examples
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-- Polymer: In the wash process, this deposition aid forms a chemical complex known as a coacervate to help keep the silicones from washing away.
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In contrast, most OOL theories suppose life began at two points and a line: a point in time, a point in space (microscopic coacervate, etc.) and a line of serially encoded information (DNA, enzyme, etc.)
Darwiniana 2010
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