Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A tiny drop.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A little drop.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A little drop; a tear.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A very small drop.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a tiny drop

Etymologies

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From drop +‎ -let.

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Examples

  • In the first stage of condensation a droplet is always formed round a nucleus.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • Melanie Little on The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg: Rather than strangle the meaning from her anecdotes and examples the way my grandmother could wring every last droplet from a washcloth,

    An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

  • Melanie Little on The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg: Rather than strangle the meaning from her anecdotes and examples the way my grandmother could wring every last droplet from a washcloth,

    Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers 2007

  • It's what's called droplet spread -- they are large particles in the air.

    KLAS - 1A* Homepage 2009

  • It's what's called droplet spread -- they are large particles in the air.

    KLAS - 1A* Homepage 2009

  • ForkLift integrates a full featured batch rename tool, an application deleter and a small code called droplet, which enables you to create automated upload shortcuts for your most used remote folders, and place them anywhere in your file system.

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2008

  • ForkLift 1.1 integrates a full featured batch rename tool, an application deleter and a small code called droplet, which enables you to create automated upload shortcuts for your most used remote folders, and place them anywhere in your file system.

    VersionTracker: Mac OS X 2008

  • he droplet, which is about 1mm 10 million times larger than an atom, is also one million times larger than the second largest object--a 2-nm molecule called a buckyball--whose wave-particle duality was observed in 2003.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Zoe Brain 2006

  • he droplet, which is about 1mm 10 million times larger than an atom, is also one million times larger than the second largest object--a 2-nm molecule called a buckyball--whose wave-particle duality was observed in 2003.

    Now This is Cool! Zoe Brain 2006

  • When the opening time is short, the result is a paint droplet which is ejected in the direction of the paint application surface in accordance with the pressure which is present in pressure reservoir

    FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 07/01/2010 2010

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