Definitions

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

  • adjective Capable of being mixed in all proportions. Used of liquids.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being mixed: as, oil and water are not miscible.

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

  • adjective Capable of being mixed; mixable.
  • adjective (Chem.) Mixable in all proportions; forming a single phase when mixed in any proportion; -- of liquids.

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  • adjective physics that can be mixed together in all proportions

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  • adjective (chemistry, physics) capable of being mixed

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Medieval Latin miscibilis, from Latin miscēre, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • A water molecule consists of one atom of Oxygen and two of Hydrogen but is also very miscible, that is it mixes well with many other substances, and considered a virtual universal solvent in the amount of substances water can be mixed with to form one homogeneous solution.

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  • A water molecule consists of one atom of Oxygen and two of Hydrogen but is also very miscible, that is it mixes well with many other substances, and considered a virtual universal solvent in the amount of substances water can be mixed with to form one homogeneous solution.

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  • Several preparations of petroleum known as the miscible oils are sometimes used.

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  • I didn't recognize the word "miscible" when I saw it in the first paragraph, though I figured it out further down.

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  • Most laboratories store chemicals in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), a popular solvent that can dissolve both polar (i.e., miscible with water) and nonpolar compounds.

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  • Light oils that are partially miscible with seawater can kill many fish, even those that generally occur only at depth [44].

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  • A substance was not good if it was not workable, that is, if a skilled practitioner could not use it satisfactorily. reference Colors that would be painted onto a surface, for example, should be miscible in the chosen medium.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • It comes in pills or liquid and is all-in-one formula contains high levels of fat-soluble Vitamins A, D, E and K in water-miscible form, plus water-soluble vitamins and zinc.

    Vitamin Supplementation for Children With Alagille Syndrome 2005

  • BLITZER: You know some people are saying that as bad as the physical conditions are for these veterans, these injured veterans, the bureaucracy makes life even more miscible.

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  • But that diuretics may be employed to the best advantage, it is requisite to chuse such as, besides increasing the quantity of urine, may at the same time render the animal oil more miscible with the watery vehicle of the blood, than otherwise it would be.

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  • "Excitedly, I added to the mixture a couple of drops of my homemade chloroform, which, since chloroform is not miscible in water, sank promptly to the bottom."

    The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley, p 106

    May 9, 2010