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noun Physical Chemistry.
the force that a dissolved substance exerts on a semipermeable membrane, through which it cannot penetrate, when separated by it from pure solvent.

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Origin of osmotic pressure

First recorded in 1885–90

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osmotic pressure

noun
the pressure necessary to prevent osmosis into a given solution when the solution is separated from the pure solvent by a semipermeable membrane
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