solids
- 1Plural of solid.
At low temperatures, many gases turn into solids.
The filter separates suspended solids from the wastewater.
Note
Here is a plural with a meaning of its own: solids as food that is not liquid-based, a sense that lives in the plural. Elsewhere it simply counts what the singular names, such as states of matter, three-dimensional figures and single-color garments. In chemistry and engineering it also names matter as a measurable quantity: dissolved solids, suspended solids, the material a filter pulls out of water.
solids is a form of solid
solid, noun: A substance in a fundamental state of matter that keeps its size and shape without needing a container, unlike a liquid or gas. Full entry
- Forms
- solidsolids plural
- Spelling
- solid → solids: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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