aerosol

From aero- +‎ sol (“solution”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɑl/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛə.ɹəˌsɒl/

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aerosol (plural aerosols)

1. A mixture of fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium.

   Examples of common aerosols are mist, fog, and smoke.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 386:

     The entire side of the barge chases itself inward, like the steel has become liquid and is running down a deain, and the metal turns bright as shock waves simply turn that thick layer of rust into an aerosol, blast it free from the steel borne on a wave of sound so powerful that it hurts Hiro down inside his chest and makes him feel sick.

2. An aerosol can.
3. The payload (e.g. insecticide, paint, oil, cosmetics) and propellant contained by an aerosol can.
4. (physics) A colloidal system in which the dispersed phase is composed of either solid or liquid particles and in which the dispersal medium is some gas, usually air.

• →? Arabic: أَيْرُوسُول (ʔayrūsūl)
• → Cebuano: ayrosol
• → Irish: aerasól
• → Punjabi: ਐਰੋਸੋਲ (airosol)
• → Welsh: erosol

aerosol (third-person singular simple present aerosols, present participle (US) aerosoling or (UK) aerosolling, simple past and past participle (US) aerosoled or (UK) aerosolled)

1. (transitive) To spray with an aerosol.
   • 1958, Cooperative Economic Insect Report, page 727:

     The door entrance and space going up the steps was aerosoled just before passengers started to enter. A second spray was given after they were aboard.

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “aerosol”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “aerosol”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• roseola

Borrowed from Spanish aerosol (“aerosol”).

• IPA^(key): /aeɾos̺ol/ [a.e.ɾo.s̺ol]
• Rhymes: -os̺ol, -ol
• Hyphenation: a‧e‧ro‧sol

aerosol inan

1. aerosol
2. aerosol can

• “aerosol”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˌe.ɾuˈsɔl]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˌe.ɾoˈsɔl]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˌe.ɾoˈsɔl]

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aerosol m (plural aerosols)

1. aerosol

Borrowed from English aerosol. First attested in the 20th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɛrosol]

aerosol m inan

1. aerosol

• “aerosol”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “aerosol”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “aerosol”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

From English aerosol.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aeˈrosol/ [a.eˈro.sɔl]
• Rhymes: -osol
• Syllabification: a‧e‧ro‧sol

aérosol (plural aerosol-aerosol)

1. (chemistry, physics) aerosol

• “aerosol”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From aero- +‎ sol.

aerosol m (invariable)

1. aerosol (all senses)

• aerosolizzare

From aero- +‎ sol (solution).

aerosol m (definite singular aerosolen, indefinite plural aerosoler, definite plural aerosolene)

1. an aerosol

• “aerosol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From aero- +‎ sol (solution).

aerosol m (definite singular aerosolen, indefinite plural aerosolar, definite plural aerosolane)

1. an aerosol

• “aerosol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from German Aerosol. First attested in 1932.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /a.ɛˈrɔ.sɔl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔsɔl
• Syllabification: a‧e‧ro‧sol

aerosol m inan

1. (rare) alternative form of aerozol

• aerosol in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French aérosol.

aerosol m (plural aerosoli)

1. aerosol

• IPA^(key): /âerosoːl/
• Hyphenation: a‧e‧ro‧sol

ȁerosōl m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̏еросо̄л)

1. aerosol

• IPA^(key): /aeɾoˈsol/ [a.e.ɾoˈsol]
• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: a‧e‧ro‧sol

aerosol m (plural aerosoles)

1. aerosol (gaseous or airborne cloud of particulate matter)

• “aerosol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025