emulsion

See also: émulsion, emulsión, and Emulsion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French émulsion, from New Latin ēmulsiō, ēmulsiōnis, based on Latin ēmulgeō (“I milk out, extract”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

emulsion (plural emulsions)

1. A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.

   Mayonnaise is an emulsion where egg is used to keep oil and water mixed.

2. (chemistry) A colloid in which both phases are liquid.
3. (photography) The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.

Derived terms

• asphalt emulsion
• double emulsion
• emulsify
• emulsion paint
• photographic emulsion
• solid emulsion

 

Related terms

• emulsifier

Translations

suspension of one liquid in another

• Bulgarian: емулсия (bg) f (emulsija)
• Catalan: emulsió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳浊液 (zh) (rǔ zhuó yè)

• Crimean Tatar: emulsiya
• Czech: emulze f
• Danish: emulsion (da) c
• Dutch: emulsie (nl) f
• Finnish: emulsio (fi)
• French: émulsion (fr) f
• German: Emulsion (de) f
• Greek: γαλάκτωμα (el) n (galáktoma)
• Hindi: पायस (hi) m (pāyas)
• Icelandic: þeyta f
• Irish: eibleacht f
• Italian: emulsione (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: emulsjon m

  Nynorsk: emulsjon m

• Polish: emulsja (pl) f
• Portuguese: emulsão (pt) f
• Romanian: emulsie (ro) f
• Russian: эму́льсия (ru) f (emúlʹsija)
• Spanish: emulsión (es) f
• Tagalog: lapunaw
• Welsh: emylsiwn m

coating of photosensitive layer on a photographic film

• Hungarian: emulzió (hu)

Verb

emulsion (third-person singular simple present emulsions, present participle emulsioning, simple past and past participle emulsioned)

1. (transitive) To paint with emulsion paint.

Further reading

• emulsion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• moulines

Finnish

Noun

emulsion

1. genitive singular of emulsio