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droplet

UK/ˈdɹɒplət/US/ˈdɹɑplət/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,698 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: droplets

A droplet is a very small drop of liquid. A fine spray of droplets.

The word became familiar to everybody during the pandemic, in droplet transmission. A droplet is pulled into a sphere by surface tension, which is the smallest shape it can take.

Vijayanrajapuram · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of droplet

  1. 1noundropletA very small drop of liquid.B2+

    “Every droplet on the window had a whole street in it upside down.”

droplet is a drop.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *dʰrewb-

  2. Middle English

    droppen

  3. English

    drop

  4. English, today

    droplet

Built from

  • *dreupaną · Proto-Germanic — to drip, droop

From drop + -let. drop comes from Middle English droppen. From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”)dropan, droupe, (Northern England) droipe, from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic drupô (“drop (of liquid)”), from dreupaną (“to drip, droop”), from Proto-Indo-European dʰrebʰ- (“to drip, drop”). 2

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

droplet in the wild

  • Water vapor will condense into droplets depending on the temperature.

    Drop (liquid)

  • The temperature at which droplets form is called the dew point.

    Drop (liquid)

  • An aerosol is a suspension of fine solid particles or liquid droplets in air or another gas.

    Aerosol

  • Because of this repulsive force, a droplet hovers over the surface, rather than making physical contact with it.

    Leidenfrost effect

  • First, with zero applied electric field, the velocity of a falling droplet was measured.

    Oil drop experiment

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

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