Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Emulsion

Emulsion , noun

[From Latin emulgere, emulsum: compare French émulsion. See Emulge.]

Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.