Definition of droplet
: a tiny drop (as of a liquid)
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Examples of droplet in a Sentence
Droplets of water collected on the windows.
there were only a few droplets left in the canteen
Recent Examples of droplet from the Web
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The Teshima Art Museum—nothing but a single space with running droplets—frees you from distraction, just as a nearly empty room in a 17th-century teahouse might.
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Frequently spread by droplets via coughing and sneezing, group A Strep can also hide on doorknobs, plates and utensils for hours.
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The FlyHealthy team also noted that their simulations included only transmission by droplet — cases of germs spreading via cough or sneeze, for instance.
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This is not the first study to suggest that small droplets can carry flu virus.
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The virus is mainly spread by the droplets made when people with the virus cough, sneeze, or talk.
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Most experts think that flu viruses are spread mainly by droplets made when people with flu cough, sneeze or talk.
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When cool air hits its dew point, the moisture condenses into tiny water droplets.
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Or, in the case of an oil spill, when chemical dispersants are applied to a layer of oil on the water to break the slick into small oil droplets that can be cleaned up.
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