Osmosis (disambiguation)

Osmosis is the movement of molecules through a membrane.

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
  • 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
  • Osmosis Jones, a 2001 live-action/animated comedy film
  • 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.

See also

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