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semisolid

[sem-ee-sol-id, sem-ahy-] / ˌsɛm iˈsɒl ɪd, ˌsɛm aɪ- /




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At body temperature, it rapidly becomes a lubricious semisolid material that acts as a local drug reservoir.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

In July regulators will publish new standards, including definitions for what constitutes a semisolid, a “solid-liquid” or all solid-state battery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

Roughly 90 percent of quakes on Earth are produced by the movement of tectonic plates, massive slabs of the planet’s lithosphere that slide around atop the semisolid asthenosphere layer and occasionally bump into one another.

From Scientific American ● May 24, 2022

The entire process takes about 4 to 8 seconds for solid or semisolid food, and about 1 second for very soft food and liquids.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

The semisolid subspace turbulence representing the mountain ranges beyond the lake flashed instantly past below him ... within yards, it seemed.

From The Star Hyacinths by Virgil Finlay


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