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Definition: Droplet |
DropletNoun1. A tiny drop. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "droplet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The mosaic consists of globules of light sensitive material on a mica sheet having a conducting film on its back surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | A small liquid particle of such size and density that it will fall under still conditions but may remain suspended under turbulent conditions; mainly in the size range less than 200 < ?xb5(0)> m. [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A small rounded protrusion, usually on the external surface of an article. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | Liquid substance particle, apt to remain in suspension in a gas. In a cloud, its diameter may reach 200 m. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smallness | Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Droplet |
| Specialty definitions using "droplet": Aitken nuclei ♦ Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell ♦ homogenous nucleation ♦ Mumps Virus ♦ Newcastle Disease Virus ♦ pestis bubonica ♦ Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization ♦ windage loss. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "Paul Trap" (movie) by Thomas Leisner. The droplet in the center is oscillating. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A or B. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Contented Mitsou" by Caron Wiedrick Commentary: "Caught this close up of my Mitsou in a contented pose. Although I didnt get this as sharp as I would have liked, its that droplet of drool that makes me keep coming back..:)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Not a single droplet formed |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Droplet nuclei are tiny and may remain in the air for prolonged periods, ready to be inhaled. (references) | |
TB is spread from person to person in microscopic droplets — droplet nuclei — expelled from the lungs when a TB sufferer coughs, sneezes, speaks, sings, or laughs. (references) | ||
Ultraviolet light can be used to sterilize the air, and negative pressure rooms and special filters are available, as are special respirators and masks, that filter out the droplet nuclei. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Droplet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Droplet" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
droplet | 26 |
droplet water | 21 |
droplet electrostatic levitation | 5 |
droplet paul trap | 4 |
droplet eliminators | 4 |
droplet picture water | 3 |
droplet electrodynamic trap | 3 |
droplet electrodynamic paul trap | 2 |
droplet size | 2 |
droplet photo water | 2 |
droplet photo shop | 2 |
droplet generator | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "droplet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pikëz (drop, pinpoint, tear), pikël (drop, freckle, speck, speckle). (various references) | |
Arabic | قطيرة, قطرة صغيرة جدا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | капчица (drop, particle, scintilla). (various references) | |
Chinese | 小滴. (various references) | |
Czech | kapièka (globule). (various references) | |
Danish | tåge (fog, mist), små blærer (vesicle), mikrodråbe, knude (knot, node), blegn (vesicle). (various references) | |
Dutch | druppel (drip, drop, drop of water). (various references) | |
Esperanto | guteto. (various references) | |
Farsi | قطره کوچک (Glob). (various references) | |
Finnish | tippa (drop), sumupisara (vesicle), pisara (drop), pieni pisara (vesicle), kyynel (tear). (various references) | |
French | gouttelette (droplets). (various references) | |
German | Tröpfchen (blob, speck). (various references) | |
Greek | σταγόνα γυαλιού (tear drop), σταγονίτσα, σταγονίδιο (vesicle), δάκρυ (tear). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אגליל, אגל (bead, drop), רביב (drizzle, rain, shower), צחצוחית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | cseppecske (globule). (various references) | |
Indonesian | rintik (fine spot). (various references) | |
Italian | gocciolina (dribblet, driblet). (various references) | |
Korean | 작은 물방울. (various references) | |
Manx | bineen (bead of liquid). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | opletdray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quantidade mínima (blob, shadow, speck, trace, whit), quantidade ínfima (blob, scintilla, whit), pingo (dribble, drip, drop, gout, touch, trickle), partícula (aught, blob, fragment, item, particle, speck, whit), lágrima (bead, tear, teardrop, water-drop, weeping), gotícula (vesicle), gota (arthritis, bead, blob, dribble, drip, drop, drop of water, minim, podagra, tear, trickle). (various references) | |
Russian | капелька (tiny bit, tittle, whit). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kapljica (bead, dribblet, minim). (various references) | |
Spanish | tetón (boot, snag, stub, stump, tear drop), gotitas (droplets, vesicle), gotita, gotilla, gota pequeña. (various references) | |
Swedish | droppe (blob, dribble, drip, drop, globule, nip, spot). (various references) | |
Turkish | damlacık (dew). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | крапелька (dab, dram, drop). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giọt nhỏ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "droplet": droplets. (additional references) | |
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"Droplet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: D'opale, dripple, Drollet, dropleted, dropple. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "droplet" (pronounced drÄ"plut) |
| 4 | -p l u t | quintuplet, sextuplet, template, templet, triplet. |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, appellate, articulate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, immaculate, inarticulate, desolate, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, scarlet, skillet, starlet, tablet, toilet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: deport, petrol, polder, ported, redtop, replot, retold. | |
-2 letters: depot, doper, doter, dropt, loped, loper, older, opted, pedro, poled, poler, pored, prole, repot, roped, toled, toped, toper, trode, trope. | |
-3 letters: delt, doer, dole, dolt, dope, dore, dorp, dote, drop, lept, lode, lope, lord, lore, oped, orle, pelt, pert, pled, plod, plot, poet, pole, pore. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: droplets, portaled. | |
+2 letters: doorplate, patrolled, potholder, replotted, underplot. | |
+3 letters: depilatory, deportable, doorplates, interloped, percolated, potholders, proselyted, protocoled, reportedly, sporulated, teleported, tetraploid, underplots. | |
+4 letters: heteroploid, lepidoptera, operculated, outsparkled, overplanted, overplotted, periodontal, petrodollar, preallotted, predoctoral, promulgated, protocolled, providently, pteridology, pterodactyl, purportedly, repopulated, tetraploids, tetraploidy, trapezoidal, triploidies, upholstered. | |
+5 letters: depilatories, electrotyped, extrapolated, helicoptered, heteroduplex, heteroploids, heteroploidy, interpolated, lepidopteran, lithographed, multipronged, petrodollars, plasterboard, postcardlike, postdelivery, predilection, procathedral, productively, proglottides, proliferated, proselytised, proselytized, providential, pterodactyls, redeployment, temporalized, tradespeople, tropicalized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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