isosmotic

1. 1.

   (used of solutions) having the same or equal osmotic pressure

   Synonymsisotonic

Questions about isosmotic

What does isosmotic mean?

isosmotic means "(used of solutions) having the same or equal osmotic pressure".

How many syllables are in isosmotic?

isosmotic has 4 syllables and divides as i-so-smo-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for isosmotic?

Close synonyms include isotonic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is isosmotic a common word?

isosmotic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.