osmose

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Osmose, the movement of fluids through membranes or thin partitions.

From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon

Osmose, os′mōs, n. the tendency of fluids to mix or become equally diffused when in contact, even through an intervening membrane or porous structure—also Osmō′sis.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various