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chemosmosis

chemosmosis is the alternative form of chemiosmosis.

Meaning of chemiosmosis

Noun

chemiosmosis (countable and uncountable, plural chemiosmoses)

  1. (physical) Any chemical reaction that occurs through an intervening semipermeable membrane, especially through a membrane in a biological cell
    Synonyms:
    chemosmosis

Origin of chemosmosis

From chemo- + osmosis.

Questions about chemosmosis

What is chemosmosis the alternative form of?
Chemosmosis is the alternative form of chemiosmosis.

Words near chemosmosis in the dictionary

  1. chemosignal
  2. chemosignaling
  3. chemosignalling
  4. chemosignals
  5. chemosis
  6. chemosmosis
  7. chemosmotic
  8. chemosomatosensory
  9. chemosorb
  10. chemosorbed
  11. chemosorbing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chemosmosis (page history and authors); chemiosmosis (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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