plasma

See also Plasma, and plasmă

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plasma, “something formed”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈplæzmə/, X-SAMPA: /"pl{zm@/

Noun

plasma (countable and uncountable; plural plasmas)

1. (physics) A state of matter consisting of partially ionized gas
2. (hematology) A clear component of blood or lymph containing fibrin
3. (hematology) Blood plasma, free of suspended cells, used in transfusions
4. (mineralogy) A variety of green quartz, used in ancient times for making engraved ornaments.
5. (medicine, dated) A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
6. (computer graphics, demoscene) A visual effect in which cycles of changing colours are warped in various ways to give the illusion of liquid organic movement.
   • 1999, "Rage Matrix", Coding plasma demos....HELP! (on newsgroup comp.programming)

     Has anyone here written a plasma demo in C/C++ who would be willing to explain to me exactly how it works?

Related terms

• plasmic

Translations

high energy state of matter

• Arabic: بلازما (ar) (blaazmaa, bilaazmaa) f
• Armenian: պլազմա (hy) (plazma) 
• Belarusian: плазма (be) (plázma) f 
• Bengali: প্লাজমা (bn) (plazma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 等離子體 (cmn), 等离子体 (cmn) (děnglízǐtǐ)

• Czech: plazma (cs) f
• Dutch: plasma (nl) n
• Esperanto: plasmo (eo)
• German: Plasma (de) n
• Hebrew: פלזמה (he) (plazma) f
• Hindi: प्लाज़्मा (hi) (plāzmā) m
• Icelandic: rafgas (is) n
• Interlingua: plasma

• Irish: plasma (ga) m
• Italian: plasma (it) m
• Japanese: プラズマ (ja) (purazuma)
• Korean: 플라스마 (ko) (peullaseuma)
• Norwegian: plasma (no) n
• Persian: پلاسما (fa) (plâsmâ)
• Polish: plazma (pl) f
• Portuguese: plasma (pt) m
• Romanian: plasmă (ro) f
• Russian: плазма (ru) (plázma) f 
• Spanish: plasma (es) f
• Swedish: plasma (sv) c
• Turkish: plazma (tr)
• Ukrainian: плазма (uk) (plázma) f 

component of blood

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 等離子體 (cmn), 血浆 (cmn) (xuèjiāng)

• Czech: plazma (cs) f
• Dutch: plasma (nl) n
• German: Plasma (de) n
• Hebrew: פלזמה (he) (plazma) f
• Icelandic: blóðvökvi (is) m
• Ido: plasmo (io)
• Interlingua: plasma
• Irish: plasma (ga) m, plasma fola (ga) m, fuilphlasma (ga) m

• Italian: plasma (it) m
• Japanese: 血漿 (ja) (けっしょう, kesshō)
• Norwegian: plasma (no) n
• Polish: osocze n, plazma f
• Portuguese: plasma (pt) m
• Romanian: plasmă (ro) f
• Russian: плазма (ru) (plázma) f 
• Spanish: plasma (es) f
• Swedish: plasma (sv) c

Anagrams

• lampas, Palmas, palmas

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Finnish

Noun

plasma

1. (biology, physics, hematology) plasma

Declension

Declension of plasma (type kala) singular plural nominative plasma plasmat genitive plasman plasmojen plasmain1 partitive plasmaa plasmoja accusative plasma plasman plasmat inessive plasmassa plasmoissa elative plasmasta plasmoista illative plasmaan plasmoihin adessive plasmalla plasmoilla ablative plasmalta plasmoilta allative plasmalle plasmoille essive plasmana plasmoina translative plasmaksi plasmoiksi instructive – plasmoin abessive plasmatta plasmoitta comitative – plasmoineen 1) Rare.

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Irish

Noun

plasma m

1. (physics, hematology) plasma

Declension

Declension of plasma

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative plasma plasmaí Vocative a phlasma a phlasmaí Genitive plasma plasmaí Dative plasma plasmaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an plasma na plasmaí Genitive an phlasma na bplasmaí Dative leis an bplasma don phlasma leis na plasmaí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
plasma	phlasma	bplasma
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Derived terms

• plasma fola, fuilphlasma
• taispeáint phlasma

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Noun

plasma m (plural plasmi)

1. (physics, biology) plasma

Related terms

• plasma sanguigno
• plasmatico
• schermo al plasma

Verb

plasma

1. third-person singular present indicative of plasmare
2. second-person singular imperative of plasmare

Anagrams

• spalma

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Latin

Verb

plasmā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of plasmō

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Norwegian

Noun

plasma n

1. (physics, biology) plasma

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Portuguese

Noun

plasma m (usually uncountable)

1. (physics, biology) plasma

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Spanish

Noun

plasma m (plural plasmas)

1. (physics, biology) plasma

Verb

plasma (infinitive plasmar)

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of plasmar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of plasmar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of plasmar.