aerosol

See also: Aerosol and aérosol

English

Etymology

From aero- +‎ sol (“solution”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɑl/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛə.ɹəˌsɒl/

• Audio (Berkshire, UK)

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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. An aerosol can.
3. The payload (e.g. insecticide, paint, oil, cosmetics) and propellant contained by an aerosol can.
4. (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

fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium

• Armenian: աերոզոլ (hy) (aerozol)
• Catalan: aerosol (ca) 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: aerosoli (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)
• Polish: aerozol (pl) m, aerosol (pl) m (rare)
• 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

aerosol can — see aerosol can

contents of an aerosol can

physics: colloidal system with gas as dispersal medium

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

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

  Cyrillic: а̏еросо̄л m

  Roman: ȁerosōl (sh) m

Verb

aerosol (third-person singular simple present aerosols, present participle aerosoling, simple past and past participle aerosoled)

1. (transitive) To spray with an aerosol.
   • 1958, Cooperative Economic Insect Report (page 727)

     The door entrance and space going up the steps was aerosoled just before passengers started to enter. A second spray was given after they were aboard.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: aerozolować impf, aerosolować (pl) impf (rare)

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “aerosol”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• aerosol at OneLook Dictionary Search

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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Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed aero- +‎ *sol, from English aerosol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aeˈrosɔl]
• Hyphenation: aé‧ro‧sol

Noun

aerosol (plural aerosol-aerosol, first-person possessive aerosolku, second-person possessive aerosolmu, third-person possessive aerosolnya)

1. (chemistry, physics) aerosol.

Related terms

• aerosolisasi

 

Further reading

• “aerosol” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Etymology

aero- +‎ sol

Noun

aerosol m (invariable)

1. aerosol (all senses)

Derived terms

• aerosolizzare

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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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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Aerosol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɛˈrɔ.sɔl/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔsɔl
• Syllabification: a‧e‧ro‧sol

Noun

aerosol m inan

1. (rare, physics) aerosol (a mixture of fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium)

   Synonym: aerozol

2. (rare) aerosol, aerosol can (a container of aerosol)

   Synonym: aerozol

Declension

Declension of aerosol

	singular	plural
nominative	aerosol	aerosole
genitive	aerosolu	aerosoli
dative	aerosolowi	aerosolom
accusative	aerosol	aerosole
instrumental	aerosolem	aerosolami
locative	aerosolu	aerosolach
vocative	aerosolu	aerosole

Derived terms

adjective

• aerosolowy

 

verb

• aerosolować

 

Related terms

verb

• aerozolować

 

adjective

• aerozolowy

 

Further reading

• aerosol in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• aerosol in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From French aérosol

Noun

aerosol m (plural aerosoli)

1. aerosol

Declension

Declension of aerosol

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) aerosol	aerosolul	(niște) aerosoli	aerosolii
genitive/dative	(unui) aerosol	aerosolului	(unor) aerosoli	aerosolilor
vocative	aerosolule		aerosolilor

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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/, [a.e.ɾoˈsol]

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