(slang) David Hasselhoff.

Pronunciation spelling of off.

plural of Hoff crab

A species of lobster, Kiwa tyleri, that inhabits deep-sea hydrothermal vents near Antarctica.

A measure of the effect of a solute upon colligative properties such as osmotic pressure, relative lowering in vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point, and depression of freezing point. It is the ratio between the actual concentration of particles produced when the substance is dissolved, and the concentration of a substance as calculated from its mass.

The generalization that, when a system is in equilibrium, of the two opposed interactions, the endothermic is promoted by raising the temperature and the exothermic by lowering it.

plural of van 't Hoff factor

Alternative spelling of Hoffman; A surname.

(chemistry) A set of three rules that invoke the conservation of orbital symmetry to predict the stereochemistry of pericyclic reactions.

A surname from German of German and Ashkenazi Jewish origin.