Meaning | The process of permeating / permeating / permeating or infusing something with a substance. |
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Synonyms | permeation, pervasion |
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Narrower | ammonification | impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia |
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carbonation | saturation with carbon dioxide (as soda water) |
impregnation, saturation | The process of totally saturating something with a substance |
Broader | diffusion | (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration |
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Spanish | saturación |
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Verbs | suffuse | to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light |
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suffuse | cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across |