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plasma

noun

plas·​ma ˈplaz-mə How to pronounce plasma (audio)
1
: a green faintly translucent quartz
2
[New Latin, from Late Latin]
a
: the fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk as distinguished from suspended material
especially : blood plasma
b
: the juice that can be expressed from muscle
3
4
: a collection of charged particles (as in the atmospheres of stars or in a metal) containing about equal numbers of positive ions and electrons and exhibiting some properties of a gas but differing from a gas in being a good conductor of electricity and in being affected by a magnetic field
5
: a display (such as a television screen) consisting of discrete cells of plasma sandwiched between two layers of glass and electrodes such that each cell emits light when it receives an electric current
plasmatic adjective

Example Sentences

the plasma that makes up a star Our new TV is a 50-inch plasma.
Recent Examples on the Web The samples were taken two or more times over the course of a year since the patients’ original COVID infection and compared with plasma from a control group of 26 people who had fully recovered from the disease. Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 21 July 2022 There’s Gabe and A-Aaron, out here in these woods covering grasshoppers and all manner of flora with plasma. Richard Rys, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2021 Our own star, the Sun, sometimes launches huge clouds of plasma into space called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Jamie Carter, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022 Galaxy clusters contain up to thousands of galaxies and tons of plasma in motion. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2022 Studies on plasma until now have been mixed, and Sheth said more studies are needed. Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 25 Jan. 2022 Another knock against the idea of using breast milk to treat an infection comes from research on convalescent plasma. Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022 As a consequence, the Mavericks begin February low on plasma. Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2021 The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration previously said that a coronal mass ejection on December 7 shot plasma and magnetic field toward Earth. Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

German, from Late Latin, something molded, from Greek, from plassein to mold — more at plaster

First Known Use

1517, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of plasma was in 1517

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