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permeant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective permeant has 1 sense
- permeant(s = adj.all) permeating, permeative, pervasive - spreading or spread throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion" Derived forms verb permeate1, verb permeate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
permeant, a. [L. permeans, p. pr.].
Passing through; permeating. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
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