[ˈplazmə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the colourless fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk, in which corpuscles or fat globules are suspended

- an ionized gas consisting of positive ions and free electrons in proportions resulting in more or less no overall electric charge, typically at low pressures (as in the upper atmosphere and in fluorescent lamps) or at very high temperatures (as in stars and nuclear fusion reactors)
(e.g: the current passed through a column of plasma)

- a bright green, translucent variety of quartz used in mosaic and for other decorative purposes



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Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘pot, vessel’): from Latin, ‘modulation of the voice, creature, poetic fiction’, from Greek plasma ‘anything formed or moulded, image, figure’, from plassein ‘to form or mould’