Meaning | Allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through. |
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Examples | - "permeable membranes"
- "rock that is permeable by water"
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Narrower | porous | able to absorb fluids |
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semipermeable | (of a membrane / membrane) selectively permeable |
See also | leaky | permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases |
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pervious | Admitting of passage / passage or entrance |
Opposite | impermeable | preventing especially liquids / liquids to pass or diffuse through |
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Spanish | permeable |
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Catalan | permeable |
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Nouns | permeability, permeableness | the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid / liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion) |
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