Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The property or condition of being permeable.
- noun The rate of flow of a liquid or gas through a porous material.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property or state of being permeable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being permeable.
- noun (Physics) the specific capacity of a body for magnetic induction, or its conducting power for lines of magnetic force.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the property of being
permeable - noun the
rate offlow of afluid through aporous material - noun geology a
measure of theability of arock totransmit fluids (such asoil orwater ) - noun physics a quantitative measure of the degree of
magnetization of a material in the presence of an appliedmagnetic field (measured innewtons perampere squared inSI units).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion)
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Examples
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The material-specific conductivity for the magnetic flux is called permeability µ.
5. Magnetic Field 1991
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More accurately, the permeability is the ratio existing between the amount of magnetization and the magnetizing force which produces such magnetization.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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Early testing of the P4 and P5 parameter wells has shown good permeability, which is also true with the other parameter wells the Company has drilled and stimulated reaching out from the 1H Pilot Area.
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A rock with large grains has large cracks, and this gives it a permeability, which is the joining of these cracks to give a path through which oil (or water or gas) can flow through the rock.
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future Heading Out 2010
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Overloaded with calcium, the mitochondrial membrane becomes leaky, and a pore, known as the permeability transition pore (PTP), opens.
unknown title 2009
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_magnetization curves_, it is easy to determine other data from which so-called permeability curves may be plotted.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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A very close watch was kept upon auroral phenomena with interesting results, especially in their relation to the "permeability" of the ether to wireless waves.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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"We found that if you add stem cells, there's a restoration of the permeability, meaning stem cells were protective -- they prevented permeability-increase in the epithelium," he said.
Raw Story 2010
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"We found that if you add stem cells, there's a restoration of the permeability, meaning stem cells were protective -- they prevented permeability-increase in the epithelium," he said.
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"We found that if you add stem cells, there's a restoration of the permeability, meaning stem cells were protective -- they prevented permeability-increase in the epithelium," he said.
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