Definition of Permeating

1. Adjective. Spreading or spread throughout. "An error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"

Exact synonyms: Permeant, Permeative, Pervasive
Similar to: Distributive
Derivative terms: Permeate, Permeate, Permeate, Pervade, Pervasiveness

Definition of Permeating

1. Verb. (present participle of permeate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Permeating

1. permeate [v] - See also: permeate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Permeating

permeableness
permeablise
permeablises
permeablized
permeably
permeameter
permeance
permeances
permeant
permeants
permease
permeases
permeate
permeated
permeates
permeating (current term)
permeation
permeations
permeative
permeator
permeators
permed
permethrin
permethrinase
permethrins
permethylated
permethylation
permethylations
permian
permie

Literary usage of Permeating

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

1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... which permeating and inwardly acting all things, did order all ; no wonder if they called him, in several parts of the world and things of nature, ..."

2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1865)
"permeating water, is more in exact consonance with what we know from experiment; and that it meets all the reasonable demands upon it as a primary ..."

3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1907)
"Osmic acid staining shows fat-granules uniformly permeating them ; these granules are in large quantities within the cells, and are also scattered in the ..."

4. Selected Quotations on Peace and War: With Especial Reference to a Course of by Commission on Christian Education (1915)
"... SOCIALIZING OF CHRISTIANITY; THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST permeating THE NATIONS Deeper than all law is national character, of which law is but one expression. ..."

5. Secret History of the Court of England from the Accession of George the by Anne Hamilton (1901)
"... Trial — Enthusiasm of the Populace — A List of Time-servers — A Phalanx of Corruption — permeating the Entire Country — The Popularity of Queen Caroline ..."

6. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"Gradually it came to be discovered that this new régime did not rest upon a chemical formula, but was a vivifying principle permeating the whole realm of ..."

7. Wessex by Clive Holland (1906)
"The dawn breaks rcc and flushes for a brief space the hills, ere permeating the sheltered vales beneath them with its roseate hue ; and seaward it turns the ..."

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