colloid
nounEtymology From French colloïde, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) + -oid.
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Climatology, Meteorology, Natural sciences An intimate mixture of two substances, one of which, called the dispersed phase (or colloid), is uniformly distributed in a finely divided state throughout the second substance, called the dispersion medium (or dispersing medium).
- Antonyms
- noncolloid, solution
- Derived terms
- colloidal, colloidize
- Related terms
- colloidochemical, colloidosome, collodion
- Hypernyms
- dispersion, suspension
- Hyponyms
- aerogel, aerosol, biocolloid, emulsion, emulsoid, eucolloid, foam, gel, hydrocolloid, isocolloid, nanocolloid, phycocolloid, radiocolloid, saccharocolloid, sol, solid sol
- Holonyms
- supracolloid