Diffusion vs. Osmosis

Diffusionnoun

The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.

Diffusionnoun

(physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.

Diffusionnoun

(physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.

Diffusionnoun

The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.

Diffusionnoun

Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.

Diffusionnoun

The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.

Diffusionnoun

The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.

Diffusionnoun

The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.

Diffusionnoun

(physics) the process of diffusing; the intermingling of molecules in gases and liquids as a result of random thermal agitation

Diffusionnoun

the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another

Diffusionnoun

the property of being diffused or dispersed

Diffusionnoun

the act of dispersing or diffusing something;

Diffusion

Diffusion is the net movement of anything (for example, atoms, ions, molecules, energy) from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration. Diffusion is driven by a gradient in concentration.

Osmosisnoun

The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane.

Osmosisnoun

Picking up knowledge accidentally, without actually seeking that particular knowledge.

Osmosisnoun

The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. An older term for the phenomenon was Osmose.

Osmosisnoun

diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower concentration until the concentration on both sides is equal

Osmosis

Osmosis (, US also ) is the spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane from a region of high water potential (region of lower solute concentration) to a region of low water potential (region of higher solute concentration), in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides. It may also be used to describe a physical process in which any solvent moves across a selectively permeable membrane (permeable to the solvent, but not the solute) separating two solutions of different concentrations.