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permeation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun permeation has 2 senses
- permeation(n = noun.process) pervasion, suffusion - the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance; Array has particulars: ammonification, carbonation, impregnation, saturation
- permeation(n = noun.act) interpenetration - mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other; Array is a kind of penetration
is a kind of diffusion
Derived forms verb permeate3, verb permeate1, verb permeate2
Derived forms verb permeate3, verb permeate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
permeation, n.
The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance. [1913 Webster]
"Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual permeation and inexistence."
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THESAURUS
permeation
brewing, decoction, diffusion, drench, drenching, ducking, dunking, imbruement, imbuement, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, injection, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, leaching, lixiviation, maceration, marination, overrunning, overspreading, overswarming, penetration, percolation, pervasion, pulping, saturation, seething, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse, sousing, steeping, suffusion, transfusionROGET THESAURUS
permeation
Presence
N presence, occupancy, occupation, attendance, whereness, permeation, pervasion, diffusion, ubiety, ubiquity, ubiquitariness, omnipresence, bystander, present, occupying, inhabiting, moored, resiant, resident, residentiary, domiciled, ubiquitous, ubiquitary, omnipresent, universally present, peopled, populous, full of people, inhabited, here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home, afield, here there and everywhere, in presence of, before, under the eyes of, under the nose of, in the face of, in propria persona, on the spot, in person, in the flesh, nusquam est qui ubique est.Interposition
N interposition, interjacence, intercurrence, intervenience, interlocation, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation, interpenetration, permeation, infiltration, intervention, interference, intrusion, obtrusion, insinuation, insertion, dovetailing, embolism, intermediary, intermedium, go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper, parenthesis, episode, flyleaf, partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff, dissepiment, party wall, panel, room divider, halfway house, interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening, intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial, embolismal, parenthetical, episodic, mediterranean, intrusive, embosomed, merged, between, betwixt, twixt, among, amongst, amid, amidst, mid, midst, in the thick of, betwixt and between, sandwich-wise, parenthetically, obiter dictum.Passage
N passage, transmission, permeation, penetration, interpenetration, transudation, infiltration, endosmose exosmose, endosmosis, intercurrence, ingress, egress, path, conduit, opening, journey, voyage, passing, intercurrent, endosmosmic, endosmotic, en passant.
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