semisolid
Americanadjective
noun
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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
In 2004, a clam dredging company in New Jersey unearthed an artillery shell filled with mustard agent in its semisolid, tar-like form.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2017
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
By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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