Used in a Sentence

droplets

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for droplets.

Editorial note

You're just cleaning up droplets of water on the underside of your butt, not sponging up a puddle.

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Quick take

A very small drop.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of droplets gathered in one view.

noun

A very small drop.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for droplets.

noun

A very small drop.

Example sentences

1

You're just cleaning up droplets of water on the underside of your butt, not sponging up a puddle.

2

They have public Saline Graduation Towers which offer a place to sit and breath in the mineral rich water droplets.

3

Less oil droplets sprayed everywhere while cooking, copes well with high temperatures, and tastes great!

4

Do they randomly drop droplets or are they, for lack of a better word, persistent?

5

Smaller water droplets are supposedly able to extinguish a fire with significantly less water.

6

The physical, conceptual differences between any quantities describing droplets on one side and the wave function on the other side are clear.

7

If the methodology works with arbitrary fluid droplets (not just water) there could be interesting work done from blood analysis to drug synthesis.

8

I've got two droplets now, one for email/owncloud and another for personal projects with automated backups.

9

You won't believe how many apps I've seen running on DO without TLS between their droplets.

10

For a small test deployment with under 10 followers, you can get away with running your leaders on the smallest DigitalOcean droplets without any problems.

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I'd rather not rely on Digital Ocean to protect access to their backups and prevent data from leaking to other droplets.

12

Haha, except AWS doesn't lock your account randomly or stop droplets for benign abuse reports.

Quote examples

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It has just stopped working again (at least our droplets in AMS are out of the "internet" again).

2

Subsequent drops in the "tracks" left by earlier drops will fall faster, since there aren't any smaller droplets to hold them up.

3

For instance, I noticed they are not "absorbing" droplets as they fall; if a smaller droplet rolls over a bigger drop, the bigger one just disappears.

4

From the ground, you might see "a cloud" as a concrete thing, but inside that cloud is just fog, and from the point of view of a water droplet there is just a semi-formless mist of other droplets.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use droplets in a sentence?

You're just cleaning up droplets of water on the underside of your butt, not sponging up a puddle.

What does droplets mean?

A very small drop.

What part of speech is droplets?

droplets is commonly used as noun.