plasma

See also: Plasma, plasmá, and plasmă

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplæzmə/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun

plasma (countable and uncountable, plural plasmas or plasmata)

  1. (physics) A state of matter consisting of partially ionized gas
  2. (hematology) A clear component of blood or lymph containing fibrin
  3. (hematology) Blood plasma, free of suspended cells, used in transfusions
  4. (mineralogy) A variety of green quartz, used in ancient times for making engraved ornaments.
  5. (medicine, dated) A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
  6. (computer graphics, demoscene) A visual effect in which cycles of changing colours are warped in various ways to give the illusion of liquid organic movement.
    • 1999, "Rage Matrix", Coding plasma demos....HELP! (on newsgroup comp.programming)
      Has anyone here written a plasma demo in C/C++ who would be willing to explain to me exactly how it works?

Translations

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Further reading

  • “Plasma” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
  • plasma mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

plasma m (plural plasmes)

  1. plasma

Finnish

Noun

plasma

  1. (biology, physics, hematology) plasma

Declension

Inflection of plasma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative plasma plasmat
genitive plasman plasmojen
partitive plasmaa plasmoja
illative plasmaan plasmoihin
singular plural
nominative plasma plasmat
accusative nom. plasma plasmat
gen. plasman
genitive plasman plasmojen
plasmainrare
partitive plasmaa plasmoja
inessive plasmassa plasmoissa
elative plasmasta plasmoista
illative plasmaan plasmoihin
adessive plasmalla plasmoilla
ablative plasmalta plasmoilta
allative plasmalle plasmoille
essive plasmana plasmoina
translative plasmaksi plasmoiksi
instructive — plasmoin
abessive plasmatta plasmoitta
comitative — plasmoineen

French

Noun

plasma m (plural plasmas)

  1. plasma (all senses)

Irish

Noun

plasma m (genitive singular plasma, nominative plural plasmaí)

  1. (physics, hematology) plasma

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
plasma phlasma bplasma
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Noun

plasma m (plural plasmi)

  1. (physics, biology) plasma

Verb

plasma

  1. third-person singular present indicative of plasmare
  2. second-person singular imperative of plasmare

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

plasmā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of plasmō

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma)

Noun

plasma n (definite singular plasmaet, indefinite plural plasma or plasmaer, definite plural plasmaene)

  1. (physics, biology) plasma

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma)

Noun

plasma n (definite singular plasmaet, indefinite plural plasma, definite plural plasmaa)

  1. (physics, biology) plasma

References

Portuguese

Noun

plasma m (uncountable)

  1. (physics, biology) plasma

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplasma/, [ˈplazma]

Noun

plasma m (plural plasmas)

  1. (physics, biology) plasma

Verb

plasma

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of plasmar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of plasmar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of plasmar.
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