plasma

noun

1. the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended

Similar word(s): plasm

Definition categories: body

2. a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone

Definition categories: substance, calcedony, chalcedony

3. (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons

- particles in space exist in the form of a plasma

Definition categories: state