Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tiny drop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little drop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little drop; a tear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A very small
drop .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tiny drop
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the first stage of condensation a droplet is always formed round a nucleus.
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Melanie Little on The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg: Rather than strangle the meaning from her anecdotes and examples the way my grandmother could wring every last droplet from a washcloth,
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Melanie Little on The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg: Rather than strangle the meaning from her anecdotes and examples the way my grandmother could wring every last droplet from a washcloth,
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It's what's called droplet spread -- they are large particles in the air.
KLAS - 1A* Homepage 2009
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It's what's called droplet spread -- they are large particles in the air.
KLAS - 1A* Homepage 2009
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ForkLift integrates a full featured batch rename tool, an application deleter and a small code called droplet, which enables you to create automated upload shortcuts for your most used remote folders, and place them anywhere in your file system.
MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2008
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ForkLift 1.1 integrates a full featured batch rename tool, an application deleter and a small code called droplet, which enables you to create automated upload shortcuts for your most used remote folders, and place them anywhere in your file system.
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he droplet, which is about 1mm 10 million times larger than an atom, is also one million times larger than the second largest object--a 2-nm molecule called a buckyball--whose wave-particle duality was observed in 2003.
Archive 2006-10-01 Zoe Brain 2006
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he droplet, which is about 1mm 10 million times larger than an atom, is also one million times larger than the second largest object--a 2-nm molecule called a buckyball--whose wave-particle duality was observed in 2003.
Now This is Cool! Zoe Brain 2006
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When the opening time is short, the result is a paint droplet which is ejected in the direction of the paint application surface in accordance with the pressure which is present in pressure reservoir
FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 07/01/2010 2010
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