aerosol

See also: Aerosol and aérosol

English

Etymology

From aero- +‎ sol (“solution”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹəsɔl/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛəɹəsɒl/

Noun

aerosol (plural aerosols)

1. A mixture of fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium.

   Examples of common aerosols are mist, fog, and smoke. (JCS Pub. 1-02).

2. A dispersion of fine particles of a solid or liquid in a pressurized or liquefied gas propellant for release as an aerosol spray.

   An aerosol was used to force the flea powder out of the can.

3. (physics) A colloidal system in which the dispersed phase is composed of either solid or liquid particles and in which the dispersal medium is some gas, usually air.

Derived terms

• aerosol bomb
• aerosolisation
• aerosolise

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: ayrosol
• → Irish: aerasól

Translations

gaseous or airborne cloud of particulate matter

• Armenian: աերոզոլ (hy) (aerozol)
• Catalan: aerosol m
• Cebuano: ayrosol
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣霧劑 (zh), 气雾剂 (zh) (qìwùjì), 氣溶膠 (zh), 气溶胶 (zh) (qìróngjiāo), 煙霧質 (zh), 烟雾质 (zh) (yānwùzhì)

• Esperanto: aerosolo
• Finnish: ponnekaasu (fi)
• French: aérosol (fr) m
• Galician: aerosol m
• German: Aerosol (de) n
• Greek: αεροζόλ (el) n (aerozól)
• Hungarian: aeroszol (hu)
• Icelandic: úðaefni n, agnúði m
• Ido: aerosolo (io)

• Irish: aerasól m
• Italian: aerosol (it) m
• Japanese: 煙霧質 (えんむしつ, enmushitsu), エアロゾル (ja) (earozoru)
• Korean: 에어로졸 (eeorojol)
• Maori: wairehu
• Persian: هواپخش‎ (havâpaxs)
• Portuguese: aerossol m
• Russian: аэрозо́ль (ru) m (aerozólʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̏еросо̄л m

  Roman: ȁerosōl (sh) m

• Spanish: aerosol (es) m
• Swedish: aerosol (sv)
• Thai: ละอองลอย (lá-ɔɔng-lɔɔi)
• Vietnamese: bình phun

colloidal system

• Catalan: aerosol m
• Cebuano: ayrosol
• Finnish: aerosoli (fi)
• Italian: aerosol (it) m

• Russian: аэрозо́ль (ru) m (aerozólʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̏еросо̄л m

  Roman: ȁerosōl (sh) m

References

• “aerosol” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2020.

Anagrams

• roseola

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɛrosol]

Noun

aerosol m

1. aerosol

Derived terms

• aerosolový

Further reading

• aerosol in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• aerosol in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Italian

Etymology

aero- +‎ sol

Noun

aerosol m (invariable)

1. aerosol (all senses)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From aero- +‎ sol (solution)

Noun

aerosol m (definite singular aerosolen, indefinite plural aerosoler, definite plural aerosolene)

1. an aerosol

References

• “aerosol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From aero- +‎ sol (solution)

Noun

aerosol m (definite singular aerosolen, indefinite plural aerosolar, definite plural aerosolane)

1. an aerosol

References

• “aerosol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /âerosoːl/
• Hyphenation: a‧e‧ro‧sol

Noun

ȁerosōl m (Cyrillic spelling а̏еросо̄л)

1. aerosol

Declension

Declension of aerosol

	singular	plural
nominative	aerosol	aerosoli
genitive	aerosola	aerosola
dative	aerosolu	aerosolima
accusative	aerosol	aerosole
vocative	aerosole	aerosoli
locative	aerosolu	aerosolima
instrumental	aerosolom	aerosolima

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aeɾoˈsol/

Noun

aerosol m (plural aerosoles)

1. aerosol (gaseous or airborne cloud of particulate matter)

Further reading

• “aerosol” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.