plasma
pronunciation
How to pronounce plasma in British English:
UK [ˈplæzmə]
How to pronounce plasma in American English:
US [ˈplæzmə]
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- Noun:
- colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended
- a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone
- (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nu
Word Origin
- plasma
- plasma: see plastic
- plasma (n.)
- 1712, "form, shape" (earlier plasm), from Late Latin plasma, from Greek plasma "something molded or created," hence "image, figure; counterfeit, forgery; formed style, affectation," from plassein "to mold," originally "to spread thin," from PIE *plath-yein, from root *pele- (2) "flat, to spread" (see plane (n.1)). Sense of "liquid part of blood" is from 1845; that of "ionized gas" is 1928.
Example
- 1. Conventional plasma torches employ such hot plasma to cut metal .
- 2. Nor does the rivalry between lcd and plasma panels end there .
- 3. Occasionally a star seller will get a prize like a 50-inch plasma tv .
- 4. I 'm not talking about plasma tvs , but about necessities like medical bills .
- 5. Unlike the mature plasma display technology , the lcd is still evolving fast .