Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by diffusion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the quality of diffusing or spreading by flowing, as fluids, or of dispersing, as minute particles: as, water, air, light, dust, smoke, and odors are diffusive substances.
- Extending in all directions; widely reaching; extensive: as, diffusive charity or benevolence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or caused by
diffusion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective spreading by diffusion
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Examples
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We confirm recent studies that osk transport in the nucleus can be modeled by what we term diffusive transport whilst in the nurse cell and the oocyte it occurs via super-diffusive transport.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Musa M. Mhlanga et al. 2009
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According to that explanation, known as the diffusive shock acceleration mechanism, clouds of charged gas rush outward during a supernova and generate strong magnetic fields.
Wired Top Stories Devin Powell 2011
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Despite the prevalent view that aesthetic perception of the Romantic period is also marked by this "diffusive" touch — as in
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If so, it is not English; life "diffusive" likewise is not
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Please note that the theoretical "diffusive" model (one of many), which does not include dark matter annihilation, seems to predict a smaller flux than what Fermi observes in the high-energy range of its measurement; however, the difference is not too striking, if you look at the graph with a critical eye.
Scientific Blogging 2009
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Please note that the theoretical "diffusive" model (one of many), which does not include dark matter annihilation, seems to predict a smaller flux than what Fermi observes in the high-energy range of its measurement; however, the difference is not too striking, if you look at the graph with a critical eye.
Scientific Blogging 2009
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For the sentence rounds itself out by rounding back on its own predicating ontological nomination: "But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive" — as if those last crimped syllabic units themselves were attempting to parcel out and quantify it, before giving up.
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The mean square displacement of these cells compared to the fibronectin movement scales with time, indicating that cells exhibit a 'random walk'-like diffusive behaviour, with the diffusion of cells relative to the fibronectin following a posterior-to-anterior back-to-front gradient.
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The mean square displacement of these cells compared to the fibronectin movement scales with time, indicating that cells exhibit a 'random walk'-like diffusive behaviour, with the diffusion of cells relative to the fibronectin following a posterior-to-anterior back-to-front gradient.
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Yet the diffusive linked progress of Victorian perfectibility seems instinct there nonetheless, grammatically as well as rhythmically, overriding the caesura and all the other shocks and setbacks of progression, not only in the emphatic glottal ligature of "growing good" but in the double semantic bond of the words.
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