different between glut vs supersaturation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French gloter, glotir (compare French engloutir (“to devour”), glouton (“glutton”)), from Latin glutti?, glutt?re (“I swallow”). Akin to Russian ??????? (glotat?, “to swallow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

glut (plural gluts)

1. An excess, too much.

   Synonyms: excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus

   Antonyms: lack, shortage
2. That which is swallowed.
3. Something that fills up an opening.

   Synonym: clog

4. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
5. (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
6. (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

7. (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
8. A block used for a fulcrum.
9. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

Related terms

• glutton
• gluttony

Translations

Verb

glut (third-person singular simple present gluts, present participle glutting, simple past and past participle glutted)

1. (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
2. (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

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References

Polish

Etymology

From Latin gl?ten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lut/

Noun

glut m inan

1. (colloquial) goo (semi-solid substance)
2. (colloquial) booger (mucus)

   Synonyms: gil, smark, ?pik

Declension

Further reading

• glut in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• glut in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German Glut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lut/

Noun

glut (nominative plural gluts)

1. glow

Declension

Derived terms

• glutik
• glutön

English

Etymology

super- +? saturation

Noun

supersaturation (countable and uncountable, plural supersaturations)

1. (physics) The condition of a solution being more highly concentrated than is normally possible.
2. (physics) the condition of a vapour having a higher saturation vapour pressure than is normally possible.
3. (physiology) The condition of a solution of gases in a tissue having a higher concentration in terms of sum of partial pressures than the ambient pressure.

Related terms

• supersaturated

Derived terms

• desupersaturation

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