coacervate

English

Etymology

From Latin coacervātus.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊəˈsɜːvət/

Adjective

coacervate (comparative more coacervate, superlative most coacervate)

  1. (obsolete) Clumped together, clustered.
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
      The ninth is the collocation of the spirits in bodies, whether the collocation be equal or unequal ; and again, whether the spirits be coacervate or diffused.

Noun

coacervate (plural coacervates)

  1. (chemistry) The microsphere droplet that results from coacervation.

Italian

Verb

coacervate

  1. inflection of coacervare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

coacervate f pl

  1. feminine plural of coacervato

Latin

Verb

coacervāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of coacervō
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