English Explanatory Dictionary

colligative

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Describing any property that depends only on the number of molecules present.

Word forms

colligative

Etymology

From Latin colligātus (“bound together”) + -ive. Coined by Wilhelm Ostwald in 1891.

Related words

colligate colligation

Derived words

colligatively colligative property noncolligative
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