diffusive
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- diffusively adverb
- diffusiveness noun
- interdiffusive adjective
- interdiffusiveness noun
- self-diffusive adjective
- self-diffusively adverb
- self-diffusiveness noun
- undiffusive adjective
- undiffusively adverb
- undiffusiveness noun
Etymology
Origin of diffusive
Vocabulary lists containing diffusive
"The Federalist No. 10," Vocabulary from the argument
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Part 1 Vocabulary & Literary Terms (Unit 5)
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Example Sentences
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"In this state, quantum coherence and many-body entanglement prevent the system from thermalizing and from showing diffusive behavior, even under sustained external driving," explains Hanns Christoph Nägerl.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026
The new device that can enable a brain-like chip is called the "diffusive memristor" because of the ion motion and the dynamic diffusion that occurs with the use of silver.
From Science Daily • Nov. 5, 2025
It was more of a diffusive process where the leadership faltered.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2021
Aciman, a famous Proustian, is clearly interested in the diffusive action of time and the heartaches of temps perdu.
From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2019
Sometimes he means by preference that vast and most diffusive race which throughout Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, the Euxine and the Euphrates, represented the Græco-Macedonian blood from the time of Alexander downwards.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
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