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Definition of Permeable

1. Adjective. Allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through. "Rock that is permeable by water"

Definition of Permeable

1. a. Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light.

Definition of Permeable

1. Adjective. Of or relating to substance, substrate, membrane or material that absorbs or allows the passage of fluids. ¹

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Definition of Permeable

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Permeable

1. Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light. Origin: L. Permeabilis: cf. F. Permeable. See Permeate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Permeable

Literary usage of Permeable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by United States Weather Bureau (1902)
"This evidently differs from the theoretical intensity belonging to the distribution of force for a permeable sphere placed in an external field. ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"On a Septum permeable to Water ami impermeable to Air, with practical applications to a Navigational Depth-gauge. By Professor Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, MA, FR8. ..."

3. The Regulation of Rivers by John Lane Van Ornum (1914)
"permeable types are possible only in streams which are charged with silt to such an extent that the degree of retardation of velocity produced by them is ..."

4. The Regulation of Rivers by John Lane Van Ornum (1914)
"permeable types are possible only in streams which are charged with silt to such an extent that the degree of retardation of velocity produced by them is ..."

5. The Regulation of Rivers by John Lane Van Ornum (1914)
"Types of Temporary and Very permeable Works.—Various kinds of comparatively inexpensive and temporary types of permeable works have been thus employed. ..."

6. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"Copper ferrocyanide is permeable to both ions of potassium chloride; therefore, ... The fact that the membrane is not completely semi-permeable has led some ..."

7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1897)
"being the case, it naturally follows that the 2 gnus, of lithium nitrate was more permeable than the same amount of sodium nitrate. ..."

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