Osmosis (disambiguation)

Osmosis is the movement of molecules through a membrane.

Osmosis may also refer to:

Physical

 * Capillary osmosis, the motion of liquid in a porous body
 * Electro-osmosis, the motion of liquid induced by an applied potential
 * Forward osmosis, a process that uses a semi-permeable membrane to effect separation of water from dissolved solutes
 * Reverse osmosis, a membrane-technology filtration method
 * Pressure-retarded osmosis, the salinity gradient energy retrieved from the difference in the salt concentration between seawater and river water
 * Standing gradient osmosis, the reabsorption of water against the osmotic gradient in the intestines

Popular culture

 * Osmosis Jones, a 2001 live-action/animated comedy film and the main character
 * Osmosis Jones (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the named film
 * Osmosis Records (Osmose Productions), a French independent record label
 * Ozzmosis, a studio album by heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne
 * Osmosis, a reissue of an album originally released in 1961 as Bash!
 * Osmosis (TV series), a 2019 science-fiction Netflix series

Other uses

 * Osmosis (band), a band whose song "She (Didn't Remember My Name)" peaked at number 2 in Australia in 1974; see List of Top 25 singles for 1974 in Australia
 * Osmosis demonstration, a set of techniques used in schools to instruct students
 * Social osmosis, the indirect infusion of social/cultural knowledge
 * Osmosis, is a command line Java application for processing OpenStreetMap data
 * Osmosis (solitaire), a solitaire card game