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colligative

colligative adjective: describing any property that depends only on the number of molecules present.

Adjective

colligative (not comparable)

  1. (physical) Describing any property that depends only on the number of molecules present.

colligative meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

colligative in Tamil

தொகைசார்

colligative in Indonesian

property
koligatif

Origin of colligative

From Latin colligātus (“bound together”) + -ive. Coined by Wilhelm Ostwald in 1891.

Words formed from colligative

Phrases with colligative

Questions about colligative

What does colligative mean?
Colligative means describing any property that depends only on the number of molecules present.
What is colligative in Tamil?
Colligative in Tamil is தொகைசார். See Colligative meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is colligative?
Colligative is an adjective.

Words near colligative in the dictionary

  1. colligates
  2. colligating
  3. colligation
  4. colligational
  5. colligations
  6. colligative
  7. colligative properties
  8. colligative property
  9. colligatively
  10. colligible
  11. collignoniceratid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colligative (page history and authors); colligative (Tamil 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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