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immiscible

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

Editorial note

The skill sets needed to be a doctor and to be a salesperson seem immiscible in some ways.

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Quick take

(physics) Of two or more liquids that are not mutually soluble: unmixable.

Meaning at a glance

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

adjective

(physics) Of two or more liquids that are not mutually soluble: unmixable.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for immiscible.

adjective

(physics) Of two or more liquids that are not mutually soluble: unmixable.

Example sentences

1

The skill sets needed to be a doctor and to be a salesperson seem immiscible in some ways.

2

Creating two immiscible classes of toys effectively doubles the variety, and the floor space devoted to toys in stores.

3

The immiscible major modes, and all that extra syntax and buffer-switching that org-babel needs to work around that problem.

4

I feel like a mixture of all three no matter how immiscible the underlying philosophies are.

5

They're immiscible and one is denser, so they stay separate, in layers.

6

I did find this: Partitioning is the distribution of a solute, S, between two immiscible solvents (such as aqueous and organic phases).

7

The article states: > Within these normally immiscible mixtures, they observed ultrathin but abnormally stable films of oil spontaneously appearing between the dispersed droplets of water.

8

Even the GPLv3 is often immiscible with commercial services.

9

What separates out are immiscible phases of different density.

10

Currying is fun and I miss it sometimes as well, but as near as I can tell, it is essentially immiscible with traditional languages.

11

Water and grease are textbook immiscible things.

12

It would use fluid gates, and present a digital display by pushing blobs of coloured immiscible liquids back and forth through glass tubes (perhaps arranged as a seven-segment display).

Quote examples

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So far as I can tell the whole “melting pot” experiment didn’t really work, absent powerful enough unifying vision/motivation/ideals and the cultures were immiscible.

2

But I was completely unclear of the procedure they used to get these "normally immiscible mixtures" to behave in this way in the first place.

3

This is the sort of thing I meant by "essentially immiscible".

4

The authors state their contribution as, "specific longitudinal unstacking in a hydrophobic environment, has to our best knowledge never been reported before." reporting such is akin to reporting oil is immiscible with water.

Proper noun examples

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'Immiscible' means they won't mix, it'll just form a homogenous bubble/blob in the water.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use immiscible in a sentence?

The skill sets needed to be a doctor and to be a salesperson seem immiscible in some ways.

What does immiscible mean?

(physics) Of two or more liquids that are not mutually soluble: unmixable.

What part of speech is immiscible?

immiscible is commonly used as adjective.