semisolid
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
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After a single minimally invasive injection, the material changes from a liquid into a smooth, lubricating semisolid depot at body temperature.
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
Its description was a little baffling: a dumpling-like concoction of creamed pike fish made semisolid with an egg-based binding agent.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
The produce was heaped in a growing pile on a small semisolid island with a few scraggly trees on it.
From The Native Soil by Alan Edward Nourse
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