a fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible 乳胶,乳状液 ■a light-sensitive coating for photographic films and plates, containing crystals of a silver compound dispersed in a medium such as gelatin (摄影胶片上的)感光乳剂 ■short for emulsion paint emulsion paint 的简称
verb
[with obj.](informal)paint with emulsion paint (非正式)用乳化漆漆
派生 emulsive adjective 语源
early 17th cent. (denoting a milky liquid made by crushing almonds in water): from modern Latin emulsio(n-), from the verb emulgere 'milk out', from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + mulgere 'to milk'