osmotic pressure

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Noun

osmotic pressure (countable and uncountable, plural osmotic pressures)

  1. (physical chemistry) The hydrostatic pressure exerted by a solution across a semipermeable membrane from a pure solvent; the pressure needed to counteract osmosis.

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