[ 'plazmə ]
■ noun
1》 the colourless fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk, in which corpuscles or fat globules are suspended.
2》 Physics a gas of positive ions and free electrons with little or no overall electric charge.
3》 a bright green translucent ornamental variety of quartz.
4》 (also plasm 'plaz(ə)m ) cytoplasm or protoplasm.
Derivatives
~tic adjective
plasmic adjective
Origin
C18 (in the sense 'mould, shape'): from late L., from Gk ~ , from plassein 'to shape'.