Osmosis (disambiguation)
Osmosis is the movement of molecules through a membrane.
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Osmosis may also refer to:
Physical
- Capillary osmosis, the motion of liquid in a porous body
- Electro-osmosis, the motion of liquid induced by an applied potential
- Electroosmotic pump, used for generating flow or pressure by use of an electric field
- Forward osmosis, a process that uses a semi-permeable membrane to effect separation of water from dissolved solutes
- Reverse osmosis, a membrane-technology filtration method
- Reverse osmosis plant, a manufacturing plant where the process of reverse osmosis takes place
- Reverse osmosis water purification unit, a portable, self-contained water treatment plant designed for military use
- Pressure-retarded osmosis, the salinity gradient energy retrieved from the difference in the salt concentration between seawater and river water
- Standing gradient osmosis, the reabsorption of water against the osmotic gradient in the intestines
Social
- Osmosis demonstration, a set of techniques used in schools to instruct students
- Social osmosis, the indirect infusion of social/cultural knowledge
Popular culture
- Osmosis Jones, a 2001 live-action/animated comedy film
- also the name of the main character of the film
- Osmosis Jones (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the named film
- List of Osmosis Jones and Ozzy & Drix characters, a list of characters for both the film and the follow-up television series.
- Osmosis Records (Osmose Productions), a French independent record label
- Ozzmosis, a studio album by heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne
- Reverse Osmosis (a cappella group), a singing group at the University of Southern California founded in January 2001
- Osmosis, a reissue of an album originally released in 1961 as Bash!
- Osmosis (TV series), a 2019 science-fiction Netflix series
Computing
- Osmosis, is a command line Java application for processing OpenStreetMap data.
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gollark: All bees in the area, so mine and yours.
gollark: Isn't there a citywide electrical grid?
gollark: Okay, I now have some bees under my control.
gollark: ++data set "bee piloting" 2
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