aerosol
/ˈɛɚ.əˌsɔl/
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aerosol noun: a mixture of fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium.
Noun
aerosol (plural aerosols)
- A mixture of fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium.
- Examples of common aerosols are mist, fog, and smoke.
- The entire side of the barge chases itself inward, like the steel has become liquid and is running down a deain, and the metal turns bright as shock waves simply turn that thick layer of rust into an aerosol, blast it free from the steel borne on a wave of sound so powerful that it hurts Hiro down...1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 386
- An aerosol can.
- The payload (e.g. insecticide, paint, oil, cosmetics) and propellant contained by an aerosol can.
- A colloidal system in which the dispersed phase is composed of either solid or liquid particles and in which the dispersal medium is some gas, usually air.
Verb
aerosol (third-person singular simple present aerosols, present participle (US) aerosoling or (UK) aerosolling, simple past and past participle (US) aerosoled or (UK) aerosolled)
- To spray with an aerosol.
- The door entrance and space going up the steps was aerosoled just before passengers started to enter. A second spray was given after they were aboard.1958, Cooperative Economic Insect Report, page 727
aerosol meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi and Arabic
aerosol in Tamil
- கரைசலைத் தூவாணமாகத் தெளித்தல், தூசுப்படலம், நுண்ணுயிர் தடுப்புக் கூழ்மம், புழுதிப்படலம், முகில், தூசிப்படலம்
aerosol in Kannada
- ನೀರ್ಗಾಳಿ, ಗಾಳಿತೂರಿರ್ಪು
aerosol in Punjabi
- fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium
- ਐਰੋਸੋਲ airosol
aerosol in Arabic
- fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium
- هَبَاء جَوِّيّ habāʔ jawwiyy, أَيْرُوسُول ʔayrūsūl
More languagesFewer languages
- aerosol in Persian
- هواپخش havâpaxš
- aerosol in Thai
- ละอองลอย lá-ɔɔng-lɔɔi
- aerosol in Vietnamese
- sol khí
Examples of aerosol in a sentence
- The depleted aerosol can spray no more since there was no propellant left.
- The aerosol can was blown to bits.
- When sprayed into the air to form aerosol, they spread across the ground very much like fog.
Forms of aerosol
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | aerosols |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | aerosols |
| present participle US | aerosoling |
| present participle UK | aerosolling |
| past participle US | aerosoled |
| past US | aerosoled |
| past participle UK | aerosolled |
| past UK | aerosolled |
Origin of aerosol
From aero- + sol (“solution”).
Words formed from aerosol
Phrases with aerosol
Questions about aerosol
- What does aerosol mean?
- Aerosol means a mixture of fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium.
- What is aerosol in Tamil?
- Aerosol in Tamil is கரைசலைத் தூவாணமாகத் தெளித்தல், தூசுப்படலம், நுண்ணுயிர் தடுப்புக் கூழ்மம். See Aerosol meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is aerosol?
- Aerosol can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce aerosol?
- Aerosol is pronounced /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɔl/ (US).
- What is the plural of aerosol?
- The plural of aerosol is aerosols.
Words near aerosol in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: aerosol (page history and authors); aerosol (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aerosol (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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